"It's a thousand tiny shackles on innovation," he said.
Companies have discovered that Americans, unlike Scandinavians or Germans, refuse to pay even a tiny premium for such innovations as electricity made from renewable energy, biodegradable plastics or cleaner petrol.
A million tiny audiences The UK innovations frequently seemed the best; yet, despite predictions to the contrary, virtually none of them crossed over and really made a dent beyond the specialist market.
Then there was his greatest innovation, the tiny microphones picking up dialogue from each actor, that Altman then mixed together into dense, overlapping ambient noise.
In his subsequent plays — brilliant theatrical innovations ranging from "Tiny Alice" (1964) to "The Play About the Baby" (2000) — he delved deeper into the themes he had earlier established as his own: marriage as an illusion that does nothing to dispel one's essential fear, anger, and loneliness; maternal love as a smiling trap that, upon closer inspection, reveals gnashing teeth.
The nickels that opened the automat's tiny doors were a charming innovation for decades; then they became a trap.
Big budget games may be technically impressive with their realistic physics engines and lighting, but it's often the smaller studios with tiny budgets that deliver real innovation.
But the "temporary" outpost has since been abandoned to the Taliban.Such tiny combat outposts are an innovation of the past couple of years.
His words should resonate in Europe as well where innovation appears in tiny pockets and only in the richest countries.
Reality is back in fashion.In the city's north-east, the St John's Innovation Centre, home to tiny start-ups, even now houses only 60 or so where it could hold 85.
