Patrick deWitt Quotes

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.

The innovator, however, must in the first place be discontented, he must doubt the value of what he is doing or question the accepted ways of doing it. And secondly, he must be prepared to take fresh paths, to venture into fields where he is by no means expert. This is true, at least, of major forms of innovation; they make it possible for other men to be expert, but are not themselves forms of expertise

Part of the beauty of Silicon Valley is that people generally encourage you to think crazy. It's the hypothesis that there's nothing sacred that can't be changed.

It's something I have always tried to do in my career - play outside the box.

I think it's been obvious from the beginning that my projects are not going to be something that people already have in mind. You can't be thinking about such things when you create something.

If your idea is truly innovative, you're going to hear from the naysayers. After all, if it really were such a good idea, someone would have already done it, right?

I wanted to go so I could learn the rules and conventions in order to break them later on.

An experimental idea doesn't have to be separated from a mainstream context. The really exciting thing is where those two things are together. That's where you can get real change.

What people don't realize is that when you start making things outside of the convention of what is normal or good or 'best practices,' you're also shedding some of the baggage that comes with the concept of what a game 'should' be.

I don't come up with ideas in a test tube; I come up with ideas by breaking test tubes. That's how I've always been.

Those who ultimately shake up an industry are often outsiders who don't know any better.

Give the composer time to experiment, time to try out ideas. Also, the time to fail. When the composer has very little time, the temptation is to reach for stock ideas - ideas they know will work and have worked in the past.

If people are telling you that they don't believe what you're doing, that means you're doing something out of their comfort zone. And generally, people don't want to be taken out of their comfort zone because it's outside of the status quo.

Creativity is about taking what is the norm and expanding it and continuing to expand it and expand it and expand it and expand it.

More Than' challenges every norm, refuses to accept the rules as they are, one-size-fits-all, and most importantly, 'More Than' implores you to take massive risk.

When someone intelligent comes around, and looks at life around football in a different way, it can be alien.

I've always appreciated a creative approach to action, doing things that people don't expect, tweaking things to make them different.

We aren't afraid to take creative risks, which is the main ingredient in our recipe for change.

Vinod Khosla is best known for shunning convention and taking massive risks on companies he calls 'black swans' -companies with a near-complete chance of failure. But, if they succeed, the world will be forever changed.

I was in the lab for a long time before I actually, like, put stuff out.

Innovation, creativity, and lunacy goes hand in hand.

Failure in Innovation - it's a price worth paying.

Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!

Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.