Brad Sherman Quotes

I have a hatred of familiarity. If I feel like I am doing something I've done before, it feels old and done. I feel I have no choice but to strike out in directions that feel new - anything less just doesn't seem worth it.

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

There's nothing efficient about innovation.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

If innovations were predictable, they wouldn't be discoveries.

I'm someone who always wants to do everything differently. If I have a pattern, I'd rather I didn't have a pattern. I want every book to be unpredictable and new. Damn it!

When I first walked into Uber, it was very difficult because people were unsure about what was going to happen - there was a real sense of powerlessness.

I never do the same thing twice.

The fun is in always building something. After it's built, you play with it awhile and then you're through. You see, we never do the same thing twice around here. We're always opening up new doors.

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.

Some things are going to work, some aren't. But there's always something new going on, so it's fun to watch and see what's coming next.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

It's a brave new world.

There is always something new out of Africa.

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

Always do something different. Always different things.

You can never plan the future by the past.

The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.

Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

It's a new game now, you know, you have to bring some fresh stuff.

The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.

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

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.