Philip Emeagwali Quotes

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn't been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

Doing things outside of the traditional fashion gives me the opportunity to bring a fresh eye to unexpected markets.

The world of entertainment is, like the world of fashion, becoming increasingly populated by those who don't want to do things the same old boring way.

Carry a big basket. In other words, be open to new ideas, different partners, and new practices, and have a willingness to dump out the old and irrelevant to make room for new approaches.

Your success will be affected by the quality and quantity of new ideas you suggest.

Being creative means first of all doing something unusual... On the other hand, however unusual it may be, the idea also has to be reasonable for people to take it seriously.

I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.

One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.

If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us.

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

Don't just rehash what came before. Find new things to do with it, in your unique voice.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

I don't believe in traditional company structures because the best ideas do not always come from the top.

I don't think anyone really says anything new.

Teenagers come to things fresh and can really teach us an awful lot.

Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a problem; it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.

I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.

I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.

If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.

Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as 'the X of Y', so this is going to be 'the Microsoft of food.' And yet disruptive innovations usually don't have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isn't.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

I didn't want to make a game unless I felt in the position to make something new and different.

We can't get any new thinking because we can't get any new thinkers.

If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.

The best artists are scientific, and the best scientists are artistic.