Dan Shechtman Quotes

When it comes to storytelling, not taking risks is riskier than swinging for the fences. I have very simple ambitions when it comes to taking risks in storytelling and programming. I try very hard to avoid the expected.

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

I've always been interested in people who think out of their time, and I have this passion, actually, for science. I'm just so enormously interested in how, when you think of these revolutionary ideas, other people get threatened, especially if you are different.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.

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

An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.

To rebel against a powerful political, economic, religious, or social establishment is very dangerous and very few people do it, except, perhaps, as part of a mob. To rebel against the “scientific” establishment, however, is the easiest thing in the world, and anyone can do it and feel enormously brave, without risking as much as a hangnail.

If you are looking for someone to break the mold, the last guy you look to is Robert Mueller.

We're impressed by people who don't know what can't be done.

Woe betide the man who refuses to conform.

It's something I have always tried to do in my career - play outside the box.

It's important to be unconventional.

You can't just be a rock star by rehashing things you've seen or done before. Bring something new, which is what hip-hop does best.

Creativity has got to have some edge to it, doesn't it?

I didn't play any extreme sports growing up. I never surfed, and I grew up in Santa Cruz. I was very good at doing what I was told, taking direction, and staying middle of the road. I mean, they called me 'grandma' in college.

We live in world that wants to burnish the rough edges and straighten the crooked line, but conformity doesn't beget greatness.

One of the things I did learn from 'The Epic' was that we don't have to feel so much pressure to conform to set formats. A song doesn't have to be three minutes and 30 seconds.

I have always been a person who does things differently.

If designers are willing to take risks, I think buyers should take risks, as well with press taking risks.

I feel that one thing that a businessman can learn is do not follow a path that has already been successful. You will never be a path-breaker then.

You can't expect to be better than everybody else if you're doing the same thing as everybody else.

People don't wanna take a chance. And I just feel like that's what it was, it's like that in every single level I've been in, from little league to high school and college.

The one lesson I've learned from technology and food is the only time you know you're doing the wrong thing is when you're doing what everyone else is doing.

You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.'