John Romero Quotes

At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.

You can absolutely be what you can't see! That's what innovators and disruptors do.

On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, "Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?

Everything we are doing is on the cutting edge of so many different industries and so many different interests. We're out there in the sunshine, and it feels fine.

Is there anyone out there who is the next Steve Jobs? I think Jeff Bezos is pretty close. He is very smart. He is extremely creative. He has completely reinvented the way in which commerce is done online.

To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.

I believe I was ahead of my time.

The core value that differentiates Apple is our ability to innovate.

My acronym is WWSJD: What Would Steve Jobs Do?

I believe in being an innovator.

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

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

Pioneering companies always try out new things and experiment with new concepts and new things.

I was a little bit ahead of my time.

We always trend set.

I always want to be on the cutting edge.

The big deal for me has always been innovation.

I'm fifty years ahead of my time.

Steve [Jobs'] brilliance is his ability to see something and then understand it and then figure out how to put it into the context of his design methodology - everything is design.

One of the key things in the tech business in particular is that you need to be able to push boundaries.

Game design isn’t just a technological craft. It’s a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading.

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.