Ted Turner Quotes

I believe I was ahead of my time.

Bruce is the man. He was definitely ahead of his time.

I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.

I'm a little bit of a geek - I have to be the first person to get new things when they come out. I always want to buy and try new gadgets.

I've realized that I've pioneered many things and have been a front-runner in a lot of things. I did many things ahead of time.

I’m one of those people who doesn’t follow trends. I set them.

A lot of stuff I do, 10 years later it becomes popular.

Gene Roddenberry was a genius.

The TiVo is really an amazing machine. Like everyone who has one, I totally recommend it. Just as everyone who's married will tell you to get married, and everyone who has a baby tells you to have a baby, everyone who owns a TiVo will tell you to get a TiVo, and they'll say things like 'Your life will be completely different.' It's true.

I'm one of the people who was a pioneer in encouraging musicians, early in the game, to get interested in technology, and now all the musicians are getting into it.

I wore ripped jeans and headbands before people wore that. I've been this guy ever since.

Everybody's got cable.

I pick up on styles, way before they get popular, pretty much before young kids do. I see 'em coming.

As far as being the guy and really the first guy with the reputation to sign on to be a part of 'Lucha Underground,' I take a great deal of pride in it.

I don't want to be a follower; I want to be a leader and create new waves.

Making you a pioneer only means one thing. You were around at the time.

The creative individual is no longer viewed as an iconoclast. He—or she—is the new mainstream.

I was country when country wasn't cool.

I find myself watching cable and television much more than going to the movies.

I feel like I'm a trendsetter. I try to always stay on the edge of everything I do, whether it be music, fashion, film. I just like to stay abreast of what's going on. What's going on in the street and what's going on in the hood I put in my music and I feel like a lot of people follow that.

Free cable is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

I'm interested in the innovator and the early adopter.

I consider myself a pathfinder. I have been excavating the jungle and making the road for others to walk. I like to be the first in everything I do.

A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.

He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.