Quotes About Innovation

I think that some of the earliest ideas in the modern period were actually from astronomy. You look at Galileo: He goes up and points his telescope up at Jupiter and finds out, hey, Jupiter has these moons.

Epistemology has always been affected by technologies like the telescope and the microscope, things that have created a radical shift in how we sense physical reality.

Hubble is the most important telescope in history after Galileo's first telescope.

The Hubble Space Telescope, which was designed for extreme servicing, you know, we can fix everything. And the James Webb Space Telescope, where we can fix nothing. It has to work the first time. And it's a very complicated telescope.

The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA.

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Television is growing. It is a huge market for great content.

The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.

The more personalized television gets, the less passive the experience will become.

Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?

Don't tell television, but there is some superior programming being made on the Interwebz.

I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?

Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols.

'Profit' in my mind is as good as television gets, and if that didn't make it, all bets are off on really predicting what's going to work and what's not.

I have never done television, essentially, so the Internet has made me and opened avenues for me.

If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.

In television, the writer-creator-showrunner is embraced as the creative mind.

Sports like sailing, rowing, and bobsled have long vexed spectators and television producers.

Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with television. We can do things that are fringe and bring ideas to the table that are offbeat and original.

I love breaking news. And I was always trying to create the new, the next thing in television news. So I was the first to do overnight news.

The first dumb idea was to do it at all - to take 'Fargo,' this beloved classic, and turn it into a television show. The second dumb idea, when you do it and it works, was to throw everything out and start again.

When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming.

Art is a thing where, the least likely thing that you think is going to be art, is precisely the thing that is going to be art. And I would even hold that true to a reality television show... maybe the entire overarching process of the show actually exists as an artistic structure.

Not many people get to create a television show that actually makes it on the air.