Jonathan Harris Quotes

I believe I was ahead of my time.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

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

I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

The young Steve Jobs had a hard time articulating something that didn't exist. He could see it, taste it, knew what it felt like, but he didn't have all the language because it hadn't been invented yet. People didn't fathom the personal computer on a mass produced level.

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

I don't say I was the first, because, who knows, maybe there was a guy out in Minnesota doing it before me.

To be the first person to do anything, you're a legend.

My father was a pioneer and a leader in the things he did and the way he did them.

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.

You've got to be a special type of guy to strap a camera to your head, especially if you're the first guy to do it.

I don't think anything Ronda Rousey does is going to be the norm. I think everything she does is going to set a new trend and blaze a new trail.

If you want to be a pioneer, you have to be intentional, at least a little bit.

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

Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.

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.

I'm not usually a follower of trends - I like to set them a lot more. I don't like things that people have done already, then it's no fun for me to do it.

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 pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future.

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

You can't be a sort of pioneer.