Charles Van Doren Quotes

Fashion is a very ongoing, renewing thing, about change and reaching for the next thing. You are permanently dissatisfied, and it's always got to get better.

In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.

It's just exciting to be part of something that is brand-new.

I always tend to favor the newer idea.

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

Leaders don't look backwards to condemn what has already been done; they look forward to create a better future.

I think, the world over, new ideas have come from young people. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but it is rare that new or radical ideas come from old people.

I always want to be on the cutting edge.

Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation.

Innovation doesn't care about anyone.

To the seeker after the new, or the sensational, to those who expect a sinister frisson from modern music, it is my melancholy duty to point out that all the bomb throwing and guillotining has already taken place.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.

I want to be cutting-edge.

My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing.

Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.

New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.

My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things.

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

The man with a new idea is a crank until his idea succeeds.

To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

I'd like to change what people expect. I want to evoke something that's not nameable, for people to go, 'Huh?'

The term 'innovative' or 'innovation' is often vague or ambiguous. But in our definition, innovation means to make something which people think impossible possible.