Quotes About Innovation

The iPad - is that a phone or a computer? If I put it on my wall is it a TV?

When I see things that are inspiring, I must write a song about it. Some people make a t-shirt or slap something on a wall with paint, but I must make music and freestyle rap.

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

Well, what I try to do is throw as much mud on the wall as I possibly can and just see what sticks, what shines as quirky or more interesting that the others, and I try to cling onto that one, somehow join a link from there to there.

Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work.

If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall.

My writing philosophy is throwing spaghetti against the wall. That's how I take pictures, too. If I take 100, surely one will be good.

'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.

With 'Running Scared,' I originally wanted to do a piece that was going to be about a couple, and the whole thing would be based on wall posts on Facebook. So the idea started there.

I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record.

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the movie industry.

I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.

There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part.

You really never know where your path will lead you, but working with technology was truly the best way I could make a difference.

The best way to figure out how something works is to try to build it from scratch.

The best way to deal with any economic problem is to let the market work it through.

I feel the best way to respect my audience is to not give them what they expect from me... 'cause it's fun that way.

We're constantly trying to find the best way to tell the stories that we want.

The best way to become a better stand-up guy is to take a break from it and do other things.

My best work was with Nadeem-Shravan, Anu Malik, Jatin-Lalit, Anand-Milind and also Rajesh Roshan and Bappi Lahiri.

What's on the edge? What's next? That's where I think I do my best work - if I push my whole team to the edge.

Our bet is on the future of micronetworks.

When a change in how some element of one's business is conducted becomes an order of magnitude larger than what that business is accustomed to, then all bets are off.

It's a lot easier to figure out how to scale something that doesn't feel like it would scale than it is to figure out what is actually gonna work. You're much better off going after something that will work that doesn't scale, then trying to figure how to scale it up, than you are trying to figure it all out.