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Quotes About Creativity

All one needs is a computer, a network connection, and a bright spark of initiative and creativity to join the economy.
~ Don Tapscott
People talk about curing autism. But if you got rid of all those traits, who's going to make the next computer?
~ Temple Grandin
Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.
~ Marshall McLuhan
The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.
~ Bill Gates
In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.
~ Colin Greenwood
Let's reuse whatever we have now, stop making more of it, take what we gather, and make - whether it's car parts, computer cases, anything that we can use.
~ Ian Somerhalder
I'm so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say 'Gee whiz, the vocal's beautiful.' I hear, 'It needs to be better.'
~ Steve Perry
I never use a computer.
~ Andrew Wiles
The computer is really like a pencil, you know. It used to be. The pencil can do anything you want to, but you have to do it, and the same is with the computer.
~ Massimo Vignelli
If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.
~ Colin Greenwood
Any excuse to get away from the computer screen is welcome.
~ Stefan Sagmeister
Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.
~ Peter Jackson
I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer.
~ Vince Vaughn
The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.
~ James Dyson
You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.
~ Marissa Mayer
When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.
~ Tim Berners-Lee
I didnt have a computer until I was 19 - but I did have an abacus.
~ Jan Koum
I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.
~ Steve Wozniak
I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer.
~ Chris Martin
The computer is very good for me; I can magnify my work very easily.
~ Jean Giraud
I just got a fortune cookie that says "Turn off your computer and read a book" which is odd because I'm WRITING a book...on my computer!
~ Meg Cabot
You never really get to touch anything that you're doing unless you print it out. I don't really enjoy making artwork on a computer because it doesn't seem like I've done anything.
~ Stanley Donwood
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven
~ Charles Petzold
I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.
~ Zaha Hadid