Darren Aronofsky Quotes

If we're going to compete in this century, we have to compete on the basis of how smart we are.

Intellectual capital will always trump financial capital.

The nerds are the ones that make the films and do loads of other really cool stuff in their life.

The strength of self-reliance and self-development is that of science and technology, and the shortcut to implementing the five-year strategy is to give importance and precedence to science and technology.

We always trend set.

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

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

I think it's cool to be smart, and I think it's sexy to be smart.

I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream.

Technology requires knowledge and expertise more than it requires money.

Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.

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

Google is fascinating, and the book isn't finished. I'm creating, living, building, and writing those chapters.

The smartest geek I know.

... things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

We're always trying to stay on the cutting edge but also, at the same time, do something that's real. We're never going to do something that's not us.

There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strength alone cannot successfully combat a tiger, but by his intelligence, he can devise means to entrap him.

In my own life, I found that whenever I wasn't sure what to do next, I would go and learn a lot, read a lot, talk to experts. I don't know how the human brain works, but it's almost magical: when you read enough or talk to enough experts, when you have enough inputs, new ideas start appearing. This seems to happen for a lot of people that I know.

We value R&D as a company. It's who we are.

I like new technology.

I had some very powerful minds working with me.

Don't let expertise fool you into seeing false boundaries or underestimating those with wild dreams.

One can only improvise what one knows.

Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.

I can be very modern and experimental.