Dave Sim Quotes

Sometimes it's bad to do something you've never done before.

It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

There is never any precedent until it happens for the first time.

New ideas are difficult just because they are new. Repetition has somehow plastered over the gaps and inconsistencies in the old ones, and the new cannot penetrate.

If something is going to be better, it is new, and if it's new you are confronting problems and challenges you don't have references for.

I hate to be the person that's like, "We're doing something that's never been done before."

I feel like so much of what I'm doing is making a road where there is no road and inviting people on that road with me. It's scary. It's scary, but I can't listen to the voices that are saying form is the only way, or that there is only this kind of form or that kind of form.

Change means the unknown.

There's chaos out there, and chaos means opportunity.

Certainly another Brad Sherman might be annoying, but it isn't something society doesn't know how to deal with. But a new level of human being is something else.

Legislative novelty is not necessarily fatal; there is a first time for everything.

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

Life is a risk.

I think the story of 'Alice in Wonderland' in a way is a reminder that life is frightening, it can shift on you at any moment.

In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.

There's nothing efficient about innovation.

But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

We are going through a terrible crisis. We do not know exactly what is going to happen, but in our hearts the pendulum of the seismograph is already swinging.

Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.

When something is new, it creates a new kind of fear.