Eric Allin Cornell Quotes

The biggest lesson that I've learned is that fashion is this tightrope where you have to be consistent but inconsistent. You need the connective thread but at the same time you need a sense of surprise.

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

Pop shouldn't be a comfortable slipper. It should shock and surprise you and confront your expectations.

I want each season to feel new and special. I don't want it to feel, "Oh, more of this." That's something that's easy to do in the first three seasons, and harder to do as you go. I'd rather err on the side of blowing up everything and being like, "Why did you do that? There was more story to tell there," and moving the family to Mexico like on Weeds, instead of people going, "Oh, we've seen this already. We're tired of this."

Some things are going to work, some aren't. But there's always something new going on, so it's fun to watch and see what's coming next.

When innovations become habits, prescriptions, they must be imagined all over again, made new.

Obvious is not my forte. I take a left turn right when everybody thinks I'm going to go straight.

Nothing is the force that renovates the World.

I think that all human systems require continuous renewal. They rigidify. They get stuff in the joints. They forget what they cared about. The forces against it are nostalgia and the enormous appeal of having things the way they always have been, appeals to a supposedly happy past. But we've got to move on.

The past does not equal the future.

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.

You cannot have growth without change.

I think continuity is a good thing. But change is sometimes good, too.

I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.

The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about if you' re a science fiction novelist, but neither of them ever happens in the real world. What happens in the real world is always a sideways-case scenario. World-changing marvels to us, are only wallpaper to our children.

Obsolescence is the key to innovation.

The new millennium sucks! What a disappointment! What's the difference between the old millennium and the new millennium? Nothing! It's the same load of crap with a '2' in the front. When I was a kid, I am old enough so that when I was a kid, I looked forward to the new millennium. When I was young, I said, 'I'm gonna live through a change! A massive change! Things are gonna be different! Things are gonna be great!' Screwed again! No flying cars! No flying cars!

And why not do something new every day of your life? Change! Change!

Science can never be a closed book. It is like a tree, ever growing, ever reaching new heights. Occasionally the lower branches, no longer giving nourishment to the tree, slough off. We should not be ashamed to change our methods; rather we should be ashamed never to do so.

We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.

We live in this society where you must constantly be reinventing yourself. The big question is what are you doing next. The only thing they want is composed of these three elements: They want you to do it the exact same way because they want more of it; but they want it to be totally different; and they want it to be better. That's all you have to do. You just have to do something that's exactly the same, totally different, and better.

I'm always trying to create something that the fans won't expect.

When I think about the future, I'm not necessarily arguing it's going to be better or worse. I'm just saying it's going to be different.

Everything good needs replacing