Quotes About Imagination

service, which would relay messages to his mother. Ron Wayne drew a logo, using the ornate line-drawing style of Victorian illustrated fiction, that featured Newton sitting under a tree framed by a quote from Wordsworth: "A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone." It was a rather odd motto, one that fit Wayne's self-image more than Apple Computer. Perhaps

By 2001 Apple had revived its personal computer offerings. It was now time to think different. A set of new possibilities topped the what-next list on his whiteboard that year.

Think Different" campaign, featuring iconic photos of some of the same people we were considering, and he found the endeavor of assessing historic influence fascinating. After

l'immaginazione è più importante della conoscenza.

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Man is very capable of imagining infinite happiness, and he should be able to grasp the infinity of space—I

The best way to predict the future is to invent it

What made Leonardo a genius, what set him apart from people who are merely extraordinarily smart, was creativity, the ability to apply imagination to intellect. His facility for combining observation with fantasy allowed him, like other creative geniuses, to make unexpected leaps that related things seen to things unseen. "Talent hits a target that no one else can hit," wrote the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. "Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's?

Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's?" he asked. "If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education, one would obtain the adult brain.

The glory of being an artist, he realized, was that reality should inform but not constrain

Ginevra de Benci was made by a young artist with astonishing skills of observation. The Mona Lisa is the work of a man who had used those skills to immerse himself in a lifetime of intellectual passions.

Conserve la capacidad de asombro de un niño.

producing technology requires intuition and creativity, and how producing something artistic takes real discipline. Jobs

Be open to mystery. Not everything needs sharp lines.

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porque Leonardo da Vinci constituye el paradigma del principal tema de mis anteriores biografías: que la capacidad de establecer conexiones entre diferentes disciplinas —artes y ciencias, humanidades y tecnología— es la clave de la innovación, de la imaginación y del genio.

The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently," he said. "The hierarchical systems of the East Coast, England, Germany, and Japan do not encourage this different thinking. The sixties produced an anarchic mind-set that is great for imagining a world not yet in existence.

We'd buy brochures of Dylan lyrics and stay up late interpreting them. Dylan's words struck chords of creative thinking.

If you wish to make an imaginary animal invented by you appear natural, let us say a dragon, take for the head that of a mastiff or hound, for the eyes a cat, and for the ears a porcupine, and for the nose a greyhound, and the brows of a lion, the temple of an old cock, the neck of a terrapin.

By exalting the interplay between art and science, Leonardo wove an argument that was integral to understanding his genius: that true creativity involves the ability to combine observation with imagination, thereby blurring the border between reality and fantasy. A great painter depicts both, he said.

This is also, I hope, a book about innovation. At a time when the United States is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build creative digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness, imagination, and sustained innovation.