innovation fatigue Quotes

I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

I think it tends to be overused and can be a little bit gimmicky. A lot of people are using 3-D now because they feel have they have to... that will come and go and the pictures that deserve to be in 3-D will continue to be. When it's done bad, it can make you carsick.

Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting.

You can only be independently creative for so long until your brain burns out.

If you continue to improve a product enough, you'll eventually ruin it.

The idea of devoting two years of my life to making a corporate product that looks and smells and tastes like a lot of other things out there with just a different trademark character is a bore.

Cheap is the last refuge of a product developer or marketer who is out of great ideas.

American invents everything, but the trouble is we get tired of it the minute the new is wore off.

As soon as an opinion becomes common it is sufficient reason for men to abandon it and to uphold the opposite opinion until that in its turn grows old, and they require to distinguish themselves by other things. Thus if they attain their goal in some art or science, we must expect them soon to cast it aside to acquire some fresh fame, and this is partly the reason why the most splendid ages degenerate so quickly, and, scarcely emerged from barbarism, plunge into it again.

It is difficult to keep the public interested. The public demands new wonders piled on new wonders. Often we don't know where our next marvel is coming from. The supply of strange ideas is not endless.