Konrad Lorenz Quotes

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

True play is creativity.

Learning something new is fun.

They sent me some tapes of the original Mole and I thought it was pretty intriguing. I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there. It was fun. Turned out to be good.

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature

Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly termed par excellence the exact sciences, may then, with the fair white wings of imagination, hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live.

What I love about 'Toast' is that there's always new stuff you can do with him.

Fun for us just happens to be screwing around with anything that gets our attention and is thought-provoking.

I just write about what I feel I want to write about. I'm like a kid. I get an idea, and it's like a kid's toy that you push and tug around the room. It's fun, it's bright, it's pretty and maybe it'll go clack-clack or whiz-whiz, whatever it happens to do. I like to make believe.

If you're having fun, you wind up innovating.

I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.

We start out as pretty creative beings... Children let their imaginations take them to place they've never seen and do things that seem impossible. We encourage it as fun and playtime, but we should celebrate it as the potential for great discovery and accomplishment.

Humans test their brand new wings and invent new possibilities using new-fangled things not with grim determination, but with play.

When we venture beyond the edge of our knowledge, all we have is art.

Curiosity is the essence of human existence.

That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.

When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.

When I read something, I want to be surprised. So I read something and go, "Wow, I never, ever would have thought of playing this kind of role. This is exciting me, let's go do this."

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.

Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination