Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

The most successful people in the world are the ones who thought of that idea that was 'too crazy to work.'

If you don't take a risk then what's the point. We can't keep making films in the same space.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.

Part of the beauty of Silicon Valley is that people generally encourage you to think crazy. It's the hypothesis that there's nothing sacred that can't be changed.

We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.

Innovation actually demands freedom and freedom demands innovation.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

By nature, men love newfangledness.

The cable makers are the ones who are willing to take risks and do something original and push the envelope some.

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

I believe in being an innovator.

I guess I think about doing stuff that nobody else has done.

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail

The innovator, however, must in the first place be discontented, he must doubt the value of what he is doing or question the accepted ways of doing it. And secondly, he must be prepared to take fresh paths, to venture into fields where he is by no means expert. This is true, at least, of major forms of innovation; they make it possible for other men to be expert, but are not themselves forms of expertise