Quotes about Innovation

There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal.

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.

One that really caught me was Joe Morello. He was the first drummer I ever saw that could do a roll with one hand. He would turn his hand over and use his fingertips to get the stick bouncing. He could sit there with his right hand doing stuff on the cymbals and tom-toms while he was doing a roll with his left on the snare drum.

I used to throw a lot of stuff against the wall, just to see what ended up sticking; now I'm pretty much using everything that I create for a record.

We didn't get agitated over the closure of blacksmiths when people stopped riding horses and started driving cars.

Milk production is one of India's great success stories.

I work for ABC. If the thing that ABC is paying me for is storytelling - not to make sure that a costume is exactly right or all those other things - then it is up to me to find the most creative space possible so that that function of my job can happen.

I've never stared out at the ocean while I've made a record before - that enhances things in a strange way.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

One of the fun things in the old days about writing with Frank Miller was that every issue of 'Daredevil' was a challenge to every issue of 'X-Men.'

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.