If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. -- Hal Abelson
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. -- Howard Aiken Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -- Charles Brower I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. -- Dale Carnegie The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill Live out of your imagination, not your history. -- Stephen Covey It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -- Rene Descartes Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. -- Charles Du Bos I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. -- Anatole France When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. -- Anatole France Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton then somebody isn't thinking. -- George S. Patton, Jr. Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. -- William Penn Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place. -- Rainer Maria Rilke Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. -- Publilius Syrus Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something different. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain