Quotes About Originality

But would you believe it? I couldn't remember one word when I woke up this morning. And I'm afraid I'll never be able to think out another one as good. Somehow, things never are so good when they're thought out a second time. Have you ever noticed that?

It's the first thing I ever saw that couldn't be improved upon by imagination.

Es la primera cosa que he visto que no podría ser mejorada por la imaginación.

When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass.

Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.

No sin is original, no matter what the bright young things may hope. We're all merely playing to a theme.

To be effortlessly yourself is a blessing, an ambrosia. It is like a few tiny little puffs of opium which lift you ever so slightly off the hard surface of the world.

You look like yourself. Nobody else. Trust me, that's a good thing.

How far must you go to gain respect? Um... Well, it's kind of simple: just remain your own. Or you'll be crazy sad and alone.

There will never be another like the other. A mother remains like no other... the same with friends and foes. Nothing replaces the other.

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

By studying the masters and not their pupils.

Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue.

What I really want is a creative person. You can always hire a Ph.D. to take care of the details.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.