Quotes about Creativity

Trying to think of startup ideas doesn't merely yield few good ideas; it yields bad ideas that sound plausible enough to fool you into working on them.

In practice I think it's easier to see ugliness than to imagine beauty. Most of the people who've made beautiful things seem to have done it by fixing something they thought ugly.

Great work tends to grow out of ideas that others have overlooked, and no idea is so overlooked as one that's unthinkable.

It's hard to do a really good job on anything you don't think about in the shower.

if the hacker is a creator, we have to take inspiration into account.

I suspect few housing projects in the US were designed by architects who expected to live in them. You see the same thing in programming languages. C, Lisp, and Smalltalk were created for their own designers to use. Cobol, Ada, and Javawere created for other people to use. If you think you're designing something for idiots, odds are you're not designing something good, even for idiots.

Even If you're doing the same thing over & over, U need to discover something new, fantastic & unbelievable that went unnoticed the time before.

I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.

Writing is easy: just stare at the screen of your computer until a tear drops on your keyboard.

When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works.

I want to continue being crazy, living my life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be.

Writing books is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public.