Quotes About Innovation

I used to collect computer punch cards from the data centers.

True net-heads sometimes resort to punctuation cartoons to get around the absence of inflection.

I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say I had a good time using them.

We don't want to go back to the same policies and the same practices that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led us to this catastrophe. We have to keep moving forward.

Innovation is a big risk. It can also be a big reward - but a big punishment if you fail.

The punk rockers said, 'Learn three chords and form a band.' And we thought, 'Why learn any chords?' We wanted to make music like Ford made cars on the industrial belt. Industrial music for industrial people.

The intention behind 'Prone!' was to make a punk song with no instruments.

I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it before.

I think 'punk' should really be defined as paving your own way creatively and by defying any sort of orthodoxy or commercial pressure.

All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business.

When I went to record my first album, which should have been a punk album, there was a synthesiser in the control room. I'd never seen one before but they let me have a go on it and I loved it to bits.

At the time, 'Oxygene' was considered a totally 'far out' concept... What was 'in' at the time was disco, hard-rock, and the early days of punk... and moreover, 'Oxygene' was instrumental. And I was French!

Everyone knows robots write the best books and make the best music. Just look at Daft Punk.

Punk was such an exciting time because there were no rules. You could go and knock on Sun Ra's door - and he was in the phonebook, under Ra!

My aim was to dismantle this false history that men created punk, because they didn't. And they were certainly never the best at it.

Lita was the perfect blend of pretty and punk, Lucha with a gothic edge and a high-flyer who could take on anyone, anytime, anyplace. She truly was ahead of her time.

Punk helped musical fringes get attention. Stuff like Nirvana could never have happened without it.

When we began Daft Punk, by the albums we made, by the interviews we did and by every opportunity we had we tried to break all the boundaries between musical genres.

Ain't nobody more punk rock than Robert Johnson, Lead Belly, even Little Richard.

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.

The whole punk scene is, of course, responsible for the Go-Go's ever getting created. Because before punk rock happened, you couldn't start a band if you didn't know how to play an instrument. But when punk happened it was like, 'Oh, it doesn't matter if you can play or not. Go ahead, make a band.' And that's exactly what the Go-Go's did.

I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.

It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happened in the late 70's. I wish there would be one big change like that again, but I don't know if that'll ever happen.

I think punk rock needs an 'Amadeus.'