Bill Maris Quotes

We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with seeing if there's a crazy writer out there who agrees with us and can take it to a crazy network and somehow bring something that's a little bit daft and edgy to life.

In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think 'outside the box,' people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.

The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt.

The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.

Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always...either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change....These are the men who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules of normal science, are particularly likely to see that those rules no longer define a playable game and to conceive another set that can replace them.

The day before something is a breakthrough, it is a crazy idea.

All the big successes of my career have been ideas that, on paper, you think, 'Well nobody's going to go for this because that genre is so dead.'

I am in the business of exploring crazy possibilities.

The best entrepreneurs know when to ignore sage advice.

Changing the game is a mindset.

I guess edgy things tend to get my attention.

If you're gonna make connections which are innovative... you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.

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

What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.

I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.

People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.

I have a saying, which is, 'Crazy is good for business.' I think rock and roll really is about being a bit crazy.

Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like bad ideas. That's the fundamental thing.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

Originality is dangerous.

Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as 'the X of Y', so this is going to be 'the Microsoft of food.' And yet disruptive innovations usually don't have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isn't.

Oculus is a company that often does things differently. But we don't want to do things so differently that we start to get into trouble.

I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.