Quotes About Creativity

She asked for clay and started to make models and sculptures. She

scenario creation is a function of good imagination.

if you wanted to see the future you could not go to conventional sources of information.

the advantage of some ignorance; it leaves some room for creativity. But sometimes it feels like ignorance is endemic in this industry-that people are unaware of things and wheels are constantly being reinvented with pointy corners.

Peyton Jones: For me, part of what makes programming fun is trying to write programs that have an intellectual integrity to them. You can go on slapping mud on the side of a program and it just kind of makes it work for a long time but it's not very satisfying. So I think a good attribute of a good programmer, is they try to find a beautiful solution. Not everybody has the luxury of being able to not get the job done today because they can't think of a beautiful way to do it.

And he was like, "No, no, I really think we ought to do that." And I was like, "We don't have time!" So he wrote it that night.

Armstrong: Yeah, then all the bits fit together. But maybe I can't explain it to anybody. I just get a very strong feeling that if I start writing the program now it'll work. I don't really know what the solution is. It's like an egg. The chicken's ready to lay the egg. Now I'm ready to lay the egg.

you only got 80 words to write your routine, and so you do tend to use things like reusing instructions as data, using a piece of data for more than one thing. If you can manage to put this little subroutine there in memory, then its address can also be used as a data constant. This is what it took-it was origami and haiku and all that as a style of programming. And I spent several years doing that.

What we're doing is an aesthetic pursuit. It involves craftsmanship as well as mathematics and it involves people skills and prose skills—all of these things that we don't necessarily think of as engineering but without which I don't think you'll ever be a really good engineer.

You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.

I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends--and I from Legends created only the ordinary!

Emperor Joseph II: My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect. Mozart: Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?

A lot of our most successful ideas over the years came from the bottom up, by really understanding user needs.

Creativity becomes a way of life. This then is the opportunity and invitation: little bets provide a powerful vehicle to approach life and work in a new way.

students are taught that knowledge is static and complete, and they become experts at consuming knowledge rather than producing knowledge." This is unacceptable.

Not only can we not teach doctrinally approved solutions any more [which take roughly two years to be approved], the truth is, we don't even know all the problems!

There are several major improvisation principles. One is that you should "accept every offer.

Accepting every offer by using "yes … and" language, a cornerstone of improvisation, facilitates building up ideas.

another foundation of improvisation: Make your partner look good. Because Bob and Sherry aren't criticizing one another, it creates a positive atmosphere to generate possibilities. Positive energy drives improvisation, and reduces inhibitions and doubts.

The more people and perspectives in your sphere of reference, the more likely good insights and opportunities will combine

Effective plussing requires that people let go of the need to control every detail.

The problem with this approach was that product developers focused mostly on incrementally improving existing products, rather than coming up with new, potentially breakthrough, ideas.

Practicing little bets frees us from the expectation that we should know everything we need to know before we begin.

Os colarinhos-brancos, os moderadores e críticos cresceram em quase toda parte à custa dos criativos e deixam-se festejar como os verdadeiros criadores.