Echoes

A part of good science is to see what everyone else can see but think what no one else has ever said.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they've had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people... Unfortunately, that's too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.

Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping her.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

The mere formulation of a problem is far more often essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and makes real advances in science

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's there are few.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Insist on yourself; never imitate.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

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.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.

Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart and write.

Many things which nature makes difficult become easy to the man who uses his brains.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.