Quotes About Creativity

Like Einstein, Kade thought. The problems we currently face can't be solved at the level of thinking that created them.

Well, that was a huge step. We had an instruction set. We could move data around. We could do conditionals. We could do most of the things a simple chip can do. We had the visual cortex for our display. The auditory cortex for our speakers. The motor cortex for our input. On top of that, we could write any damn software we wanted.

The problems we currently face can't be solved at the level of thinking that created them.

I wanted to do animation for adults; films like Fritz the Cat (1972) that were shown as midnight movies and had an edge to them.

Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.

One way to avoid what has already been done is to be true to yourself.

The best spells are the ones you write yourself.

You know, it is very simple to be a genius. All you have to do is think for yourself.

They go to Paris to learn how to make bombs and they come back having learned only how to write poetry, which they think is more explosive.

Edison's admirers endowed him with fantastical powers that would permit him to invent anything he wished (one

Bell invented the telephone while tinkering with acoustic telegraphy; Edison invented the phonograph while tinkering with the telephone.

Young Bell and Edison were the same age, each improving the major invention that the other had come up with first, Edison following Bell, then Bell following Edison. Edison, in fact, had been close to devising a working telephone himself. After Bell's success, the next best thing for Edison was to come up with an indispensable improvement, the carbon transmitter that captured the human voice far better than Bell's magnetic design. Edison

But one immediate benefit of the press's marveling was that the extensive coverage supplied Edison with creative ideas about how the phonograph could be adapted for many more uses than telegraphy or senatorial speeches.

Graham conveys the sense that good ideas are plentiful, waiting for someone to come along and pluck them off the ground. "There's a bunch of things like that," he says.

invention should not be pursued as an exercise in technical cleverness, but should be shaped by commercial needs.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

It is always difficult for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend, but because their poems are bad.

It's ugly, but is it art?

A poet is a person who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightening five or six times.

My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!

I'm going to write a novel and get it published. I'm going to do it because writing a novel is worthwhile and because I have the talent to do it. I'm going to do it because I have something important to say to the world. I refuse to let anything get in my way.

For a novelist, being 'too emotional' is often a good thing. The only thing you have to sell is your emotional experiences.

We see the Snowflake design for this book.

Engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources.