Quotes About Innovation

I also feel that the only thing more gratifying than working with someone who you've worked well with is working with someone new and coming up with something great.

About the only thing that I'll probably end up doing is I made this amplifier with Peavey. It's in the manufacturing stages right now, and there are a lot of orders that we just got for it.

The only thing Google has failed to do, so far, is fail.

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.

'Saturday Night Live' will always be this amazing, powerful behemoth, but it's also not the only thing happening in comedy anymore.

The general message would be to say to all these young people: If you have entrepreneurial aspirations, there is money, there are consumers, there is a huge market. The only thing you need to do is to go there and start doing things.

They all come from the street - tap, jazz and flamenco. And the streets are always changing. If it comes from the streets, change is the only thing that's consistent.

The problem with couture is not designers; it's what happens when the couturier will no longer be there.

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.

The problem with Microsoft is that it's so committee-driven and slow.

The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.

The problem with TV now is that there's so much competition, that you're always on the chopping block.

I think that the problem with network television is that they cling to the whole business model like they are clinging to the side of a cliff.

The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.

For Google, the problem with being a free, abundant, and rather infinite set of services is that it's hard to create much of a stir about anything. There are so many major software service options under the 'more' menu on the Gmail page that they've had to go and add a final item called 'even more.'

The problem with existing biology is you change only one or two genes at a time.

Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an insistence that we do maths by hand when most of it is done by computers. The idea that you have to do everything by hand before you can operate a computer is nonsense.

That era of designers being away with the fairies is gone... You've got to live in the real world.

Now having said that, I realize that releasing a film in the real world is like trying to get General Motors to release a handmade car.

People - especially the geeks who created it - have tended to look at the Internet as something that's hermetically sealed: there's the Internet and the rest of the world. But that's not how people want to use the Internet. They want to use it as a way of better navigating the real world.

To try to teach ignoring technology is to ignore the progress that we have made over the last century. If school is preparation for the real world - a real world that is increasingly technology-driven - then to ignore technology is to become obsolete.

I want to create something that doesn't exist exactly in the real world, but exists in a kind of parallel to the real world.

I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring.