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)