Quotes About Innovation

Elements of the world outside may effectively act as mental "extensions," allowing us to think in ways our brains could not manage on their own.

Think of the task not in linear terms—tracing a direct line from point A to point B—but rather as a cycle: think, draw, look, rethink, redraw. Likewise, don't envision the mind telling the pencil what to do; instead, allow a conversation to develop between eye and hand,

Your time may be limited, but your imagination is not.

A steady salary is an invitation to mediocrity.

The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it.

Art is an adventure that never seems to end.

The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you.

Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the women's movement was taking off. Ours was the first prime-time one-hour show featuring a strong, professional woman. It paved the way for other series to follow.

Oh there are lots of doctors and medical professionals out there who buy my devices at whole sale price.

Young professionals shouldn't have to let a fear of failure hold them back; they should feel emboldened to take on challenges in creative ways.

Infosys was founded and run by professionals.

There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.

Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.

Who would have thought that a story about a professor of phonetics would result in it being probably one of the great shows ever for musical theatre? It's a seemingly odd subject.

Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk.

When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make science fiction movies, so I applied to film school, but I couldn't get in. A professor told me I should try architecture instead.

I co-founded Affectiva with Professor Rosalind W. Picard when we spun out of MIT Media Lab in 2009. I acted as Chief Technology and Science Officer for several years until becoming CEO mid-2016, one of a handful of female CEOs in the AI space.

Productivity is going to be a critical issue. And it's not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It involves reexamining the learning experience and restructuring faculty and the use of faculty time.

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.

We try to make games we want to make for the sake of making fun games and not necessarily to make a profit.