Quotes About Creation

But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers.

Los Altos house with the garage where Apple was born In the Homestead High yearbook, 1972

sometimes I don't. It's the great mystery." Paul Jobs was then working at Spectra-Physics, a company in nearby Santa Clara that made lasers for electronics and medical products. As a machinist, he crafted the prototypes of products that the engineers

It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.

It was then I realized that I do give a shit about Apple—I started it and it is a good thing to have in the world.

see God in the instruments and mechanisms that work reliably.

La mejor manera de predecir el futuro es inventarlo.

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer," Jobs told Fortune shortly after retaking the reins at Apple. "But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers.

the biggest way to deliver an effect to the world is not by writing a paper but by taking technology you believe in and making something of it.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers.

It seemed to him that the hand was not able to attain to the perfection of art in carrying out the things which he imagined.

Hey, if we're going to make things in our life, we might as well make them beautiful.

Jobs obsessed over every aspect of the new building, from the overall concept to the tiniest detail regarding materials and construction. Steve had this firm belief that the right kind of building can do great things for a culture, said Pixar's president Ed Catmull. Jobs controlled the creation of the building as if he were a director sweating each scene of a film. The PIxar building was Steve's own movie, Lasseter said.

Both assessments contain a lot of truth, but there is more to it than that. There falls a shadow, as T. S. Eliot noted, between the conception and the creation. In the annals of innovation, new ideas are only part of the equation. Execution is just as important.

caso de John Atanasoff, el olvidado inventor de Iowa, la concepción de la idea es solo el primer paso. Lo que importa realmente es la ejecución.

As he aged, he pursued his scientific inquiries not just to serve his art but out of a joyful instinct to fathom the profound beauties of creation. When he groped for a theory of why the sky appears blue, it was not simply to inform his paintings. His curiosity was pure, personal, and delightfully obsessive.

I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals or would sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation

Berners-Lee built the Web on top of the Internet.

Use all the stars we have in stock; Of water, fire,walls of rock, And beasts and birds there is no lack. In our narrow house of boards, bestride The whole creation, far and wide; Move thoughtfully, but fast as well, From heaven through the world to hell

Nietzsche says: "Nicht nur fort sollst du dich pflanzen sondern hinauf"—you should propagate yourself not only onward but upward: procreation need not be a senseless continuation of an essentially meaningless story and an addition of more and more zeros—it can really be a creation.

Journeys are fundamentally the same: they begin in the mind, with the image or the story that inspires them in the first place, and finish in the world.

We will be one step down from the Creator, she said, her olive-hued face tightening into an expression that she considered dramatic. Imagining a world and then making it.

These were people who faced their fears and created the world as they moved through it.

all those days I was walkin' on the streets, I kept thinkin' how special you got to be to get born.