Quotes About Creativity

poetry as a language within a language

The way we build stuff at Apple is often this way. Even the number of models we'd make of a new notebook or iPod. We would start off with a version and then begin refining and refining, doing detailed models of the design, or the buttons, or how a function operates. It's a lot of work, but in the end it just gets better, and soon it's like, "Wow, how did they do that?!? Where are the screws?

This was fortunate. He would have made a poor notary: he got bored and distracted too easily, especially when a project became routine rather than creative.14

More than that, the iPod became the essence of everything Apple was destined to be: poetry connected to engineering, arts and creativity intersecting with technology, design that's bold and simple.

Many of the figures in his preparatory drawings are nude; he had come to believe in Alberti's advice that an artist should build a picture of a human body from the inside out, first conceiving of the skeleton, then the skin, then the clothing.

Well, Steve, I think there's more than one way of looking at it. I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.

Apple was destined to be: poetry connected to engineering, arts and creativity intersecting with technology, design that's bold and simple.

Walter Isaacson

Only in the eleventh paragraph, at the end, did he add that he was also an artist. "Likewise in painting, I can do everything possible," he wrote.

Los artistas buenos copian y los artistas geniales roban"

It's rare that you see an artist in his thirties or forties able to really contribute something amazing," Jobs declared as he was about to turn thirty.

States is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build creative digital-age economies, Jobs

At age twelve, when he got a summer job at Hewlett-Packard, he learned that a properly run company could spawn innovation far more than any single creative individual. "I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company

É claro que existiram muitos outros polímatas insaciáveis, e a própria Renascença produziu outros Homens da Renascença. Contudo, nenhum deles pintou a Mona Lisa.

market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.

The school as at fault for trying to make me memorise stupid stuff rather than stimulating me

The first instinct that he indulged was his passion for design. The name he chose for his new company was rather straightforward: Next. In order to make it more distinctive, he decided he needed a world-class logo. So he courted the dean

In 1482, the year he turned thirty, Leonardo da Vinci left Florence for Milan, where he would end up spending the next seventeen years.

Ward Cunningham's wiki software.

Gates soutint le regard de Jobs, puis se mit à crier aussi, de sa voix de fausset : — Il y a une autre façon de voir les choses, Steve ! Xerox était notre riche voisin à tous les deux, et quand je suis entré chez lui pour lui voler sa télévision, j'ai découvert que tu l'avais déjà emportée !

The ability of Isaacson to write books that capture an age as well as a man makes him one of our best and most important biographers. Steve Jobs shows Isaacson at his best." —Foreign

Therein lies the key, I think, to Einstein's brilliance and the lessons of his life. As a young student he never did well with rote learning. And later, as a theorist, his success came not from the brute strength of his mental processing power but from his imagination and creativity.

Shockley had the ability to visualize quantum theory, how it explained the movement of electrons, the way a choreographer can visualize a dance.

One aspect of innovation is inventing new devices; another is inventing popular ways to use these devices.