Ralph H. Baer Quotes

Each time I invent something and have it manufactured, it's so incredibly exciting that I can't imagine ever wanting to stop. Envisioning new products is easy for me. I just don't have enough time in the day to design them all.

Everything begins with an idea.

Creative drives our business; the business doesn't drive the creative.

Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist.

Business fascinates me. It's very creative.

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

I have fantastic ideas.

I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea!

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

When you have one idea per year, it's already a miracle!

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

I can't understand the conditions of a corporate product being designed and getting millions. I admire it, it's great, but I don't know how to do that. I have to have the wheel.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

I get a million ideas a day and I don't put too much weight on any one of them. The ones that really stick in my head are the ones I end up doing.

I'm always having ideas. I'd like to continue being able to realise the ideas I have.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Creativity is what transforms.