Julian Lincoln Simon Quotes

Progress toward a more abundant material life does not come like manna from heaven, however. My message certainly is not one of complacency. The ultimate resource is people — especially skilled, spirited, and hopeful young people endowed with liberty — who will exert their wills and imaginations for their own benefit and inevitably benefit the rest of us as well.

The ultimate resource in economic development is people. It is people, not capital or raw materials that develop an economy.

People and plenty are commonly the begetters the one of the other, if rightly ordered.

Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me and no one else, education means making creators. . . . You have to make inventors, innovators...not conformists

Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.

I think it's better to have ideas.

If the people of Comic-Con ruled the world...then tomorrow would be invented every day.

Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.

People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.

The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.

To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less directly refer.

Humankind is able to create new conditions, a new reality. We are not fated to swim forever among the realities that are here now. ... Everything that is worthwhile in human civilization has not only originated from but has been inspired by dreams, by imagination.

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.

Imagination is more important than information. Einstein said that, and he should know. And they come. And they look. And we push. And they fly. We to stay and die on our beds. They to go and die howsoever, yet inspiring those who come after them to find their own edge. And fly.

Every election is about the future, which by definition means it's more about the future of young people than it is about me.

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

Human creativity is unlimited. It is the capacity of humans to make things happen which didn't happen before. Creativity provides the key to solving our social and economic problems.

Individualism is bad for business - though absolutely necessary for freedom, progressive knowledge, and any possible interface with the transcendent.

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

The values that we share - freedom of speech, freedom of religious practice, freedom for civil society, free and fair elections, all the innovation that's been created through a market-based economy - those things are ultimately going to be the path for us to continue into a better future. I hope that, despite some of the challenges we have, that people appreciate that.

Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of progress that you can't even imagine in advance.

A lot of people believe that you don't need to know the history and that creates newness. I disagree: we should always be informed and then destroy it.

You wouldn't want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn't mean you can't take it seriously as well.

Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.