Fred DeLuca Quotes

Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new.

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.

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

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

I don't look at other people's work because I don't want to be distracted by their ideas.

We don't ask research to do what it was never meant to do, and that is to get an idea.

I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.

To be honest, I think we should find first the possibility to make it. Research is first - if you're not interested, you never can find something. Many things happen from forgotten machines - ones that are no longer used.

You don't want a whole bunch of yes people around you.

I guess I think about doing stuff that nobody else has done.

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

We should revel in tons and tons and tons of ideas. Some of them will manifest and lead to a drug discovery, and some will not.

I strive to create new opportunities in terms of partnerships and new works being presented and things you haven't seen anywhere else. Also to help you see old things in ways you haven't seen them before.

Amuse-bouches are an opportunity to push boundaries.

Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.

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.

I'm someone who always wants to do everything differently. If I have a pattern, I'd rather I didn't have a pattern. I want every book to be unpredictable and new. Damn it!

I'm for experimentation. I'm for trying things. That's true whether we're talking about hardware or personnel issues. We need to try some things, because doing what we have always done because we've always done it that way doesn't work.

You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

For us to create unique experiences that other companies cannot, the best possible option for us is to be able to develop hardware that can realize unique software experiences.

I never learned to cook, so I've got no rules. I'll put things together just because I think they belong together.