Edwin Catmull Quotes

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

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

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

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.

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

I believe in being an innovator.

The world of entertainment is, like the world of fashion, becoming increasingly populated by those who don't want to do things the same old boring way.

We do worry that we might be making something we've made before. It's important that we make something we've never made before.

If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

To innovate is not to reform.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

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

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

There's nothing efficient about innovation.

A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

Innovation never comes from the established institutions.