Hyman Rickover Quotes

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

If everybody thinks you're out of your mind, you just might be onto something.

The secret of innovation is to see what all see but think what none think

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

Young people don't even consider that it's a good idea to be out on the fringe, which is where good ideas come from.

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

To use your head, you have to go out of your mind.

For a writer, you definitely do not want to be in the mainstream. You want to be on the edge because that's where the vantage point is. That's where you can see.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

I never liked to copy things that are out there. I always like to come up with something new, something different.

Don't listen to the prevailing majority points of view. If you have new ideas, push them.

I enjoy thinking about ways to create something that other people have not even thought about, something no one has managed to achieve.

I don't want a lot of guys like me who played the game. Quite frankly, I want blank canvases; I want people to come in with new ideas. I don't want the biases of their own experiences to be a part of their decision-making process.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

If you want to be in the world I live in, which is a creative world with new ideas, then you've got to get away from the norm. You've got to go for it.

The day before something is a breakthrough, it is a crazy idea.

I've always had my own opinions and have always been somebody who thinks outside the box.

It's all about evolution and for us, we try to think outside the box and not try to duplicate what we've done in the past.

I like more the fact that I like to think out of the box. Thinking out of the box goes along with dressing out of the box and living out of the box.

Big ideas come from forward thinking people who challenge the norm, think outside the box, and invent the world they see inside rather than submitting to the limitations of current dilemmas

A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.

All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.

That’s the key to new and good ideas; they come from having a very broad and multidisciplinary range of interests.

All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.

New ideas are not born in a conforming environment.