Pioneering Ideas Quotes

You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.

Innovation is a necessity.

Innovation requires a novel approach to scientific problem solving, higher level of resource commitments over much longer time durations.

My view is there's no bad time to innovate.

When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.

In the world of musical theatre, if everyone says it's a good idea, you wonder why nobody has done it before.

I had no idea 'The Dream Weaver' would be so successful. Everything just fell into place with that album. I pioneered a number of ideas with that album and subsequent tour. The all-keyboard approach with no guitars was a new one, and I was one of the first to use a drum machine in concert. It was an amazing time.

Radical innovation is difficult to fund. It seems scary. And the really radical things seem even more scary.

Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these were all considered toys at their introduction because they had no constituency. They were too new.

People are looking for something new at the end of the day, and I think when people can do something new and unique to get people's attention, that's what is needed. There's so many people that follow the trend, and then it gets to a point where it gets a little stale. So, in music, I mean, whoever's the new trendsetter, that's who people follow.

I just want to innovate.

Innovation is not born from the dream, innovation is born from the struggle

There are certain cities around the world where it's possible to learn about tomorrow's technology as it's being developed today.

You don't want to just do 'me too' companies that are copying what others are doing.

It's difficult to do something radically new, unless you are at the heart of a company.

When there is change, there are always sceptics who think it won't work. I am sure someone at some point thought the iPhone wouldn't take off.

Being a tech company has to be about a pattern of repetitive innovation.

Part of the challenge of being an entrepreneur, if you're going for a really huge opportunity, is trying to find problems that aren't quite on the radar yet and try to solve those.

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

The best people in this industry [technology] are the people who are trying to solve big problems.

Since Mashable's inception, some of our most popular articles have focused on the science behind the world's coolest innovations.

In 1967, London Weekend Television asked me to head up their sports coverage. I got to work with guys like Brian Moore and Dickie Davies. We were the first ones to come up with the idea of the pundits' panel. Although, since I was one of the pundits, it's debatable how good an idea that was.

'Out of the box' corporate thinking helped carry real American innovation out in a box. A pine box.

What I like on Kickstarter is when I see real innovation and I see people building something new. It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.

My life was not useless; I gave important truths to the world, and it was only for want of understanding that they were disregarded. I have been ahead of my time.