Quotes About Imagination

the risk we should most fear is not the risk we easily imagine. It is the risk that we don't. Which brought us to the fifth risk.

The trick was not simply to write the code that turned information into pictures but to find the best pictures to draw—shapes and colors that led the mind to meaning.

There is another way to think of John MacWilliams's fifth risk: the risk a society runs when it falls into the habit of responding to long-term risks with short-term solutions. "Program management" is not just program management. "Program management" is the existential threat that you never really even imagine as a risk.

Psychologists have long known that people see patterns where none exist.

It's what you fail to imagine that kills you.

human imagination is a poor tool for judging risk. People are really good at responding to the crisis that just happened, as they naturally imagine that whatever just happened is most likely to happen again. They are less good at imagining a crisis before it happens—and taking action to prevent it.

Passing one tableau of blood and guts and moving on to the next, I caught myself glancing over my shoulder to make sure some Viking wasn't following me with a battle-ax. The effect was so disorienting that when I reached the end and found a Japanese woman immobile and reading on a bench, I had to poke her on the shoulder to make sure she was real.

And so you might have good reason to pray for a tornado, whether it comes in the shape of swirling winds, or a politician. You imagine the thing doing the damage that you would like to see done, and no more. It's what you fail to imagine that kills you.

No doubt the Home of the Future was only one of several possible uses Clark would find for their work. That was Clark's job—to imagine a future for their software.

She said working for the government, you need to imagine you are tied down, Gulliver-style. And if you want to even wiggle your big toe, first you need to ask permission. And that if you can imagine that and still imagine getting things done, you'll get things done.

The triple of Jeremy Brown's imagination, in reality, is a home run.

The most appealing companies became those in a state of pure possibility.

New Growth Theory argued, in abstruse mathematics, that wealth came from the human imagination. Wealth wasn't chiefly having more of old things; it was having entirely new things. 'Growth is just another word for change

I always felt a bit like a child in all this but having the eyes of a child and a sense of awe and no firmly held perspective to begin with was how I could help in some small way. I never had anything to unlearn.

A part of good science is to see what everyone else can see but think what no one else has ever said.

She'd heard a line once that still resonated with her: The only thing any of us can do completely on our own is to have the start of a good idea.

It is amazing how dull history books are, given how much of what's in them must be invented." What

Take a piece of paper and fold it in half, then fold it in half again, for a total of 50 times folding it in half. If a piece of paper is 0.004 inches thick to begin with, by the time you fold it 50 times, it is more than 70 million miles thick.

What people remember about the past, they suggested, is likely to warp their judgment of the future. "We often decide that an outcome is extremely unlikely or impossible, because we are unable to imagine any chain of events that could cause it to occur. The defect, often, is in our imagination.

You can't have made-up things in made-up stories. But in real life, you can.

The furniture was white and the carpet red – it looked like the inside of someone's mouth. Three

though we all inhabit the same place during the day, at night each one of us is hurled into a several world.

You still search for Narnia, even though by then you're too old to believe in it and it doesn't want you there.

Imagine, if you will, a watchmaker's workshop. In fact, please imagine one whether you wish to or not.