Scott McNealy Quotes

You have to think outside the box.

One of my guiding principles is don't do anything that other people are doing. Always do something a little different if you can. The concept is that if you do it a little differently there is a greater potential for reward than if you the same thing that other people are doing. I think that this kind of goal for one's work, having obviously the maximum risk, would have the maximum reward no matter what the field may be.

I never liked to copy things that are out there. I always like to come up with something new, something different.

I'm a fan of polarization. If you make something that is palatable to everybody, it's like making vanilla ice cream, and I think we have enough of that.

If everybody thinks you're out of your mind, you just might be onto something.

I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm.

To use your head, you have to go out of your mind.

There's a large opportunity for Bon Iver to be a special thing, even from a business standpoint - just trying to do cooler things. Every band sells t-shirts and plays certain auditoriums, but I'm sick of being like everyone else, because I'm not.

I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.

If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

Every band I've worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they've gone somewhere that nobody else has been.

Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.

I always do things that are not the flavour of the season. And that's why people like me.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

You gotta stick your neck out and put out a record that isn't safe... that's the Green Day way!

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

I think we're quite unique in that we do have our own sound and approach and we don't really care what's going on elsewhere... we've never wanted to be part of another trend or movement.

If you want to be in the world I live in, which is a creative world with new ideas, then you've got to get away from the norm. You've got to go for it.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

The American people ... have a stake in con-conformity, for they know that the American genius is non-conformist.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.