Ramez Naam Quotes

We can invent only with memory.

People are sources not just of consumption but of innovation.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

I think in order to keep America great, we have to keep America creative.

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

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.

I have a folder in my office with about 400 ideas in it. So it will take me another 40 years to get through those.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

My personal mission has always been to empower people to be creative. But the Holy Grail of a tinkerer is to make something that makes something.

The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

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.

Invention breeds invention.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

I'm wondering how people are so creative, and how many things were born out of and inspired by the Cube.

We are all innovators, we all like to use our imagination, which is our greatest tool.

Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.

Get creative with your friends and just make stuff because you never know where it can end up.

Our most valuable resources - creativity, communication, invention, and reinvention - are, in fact, unlimited.

In innovation, you're trying to create something from nothing.

You have to draw on a fair amount of experience in order to be able to put ideas together.

I need to be creative all the time.

You can't invent something you have no epistemological access to. In a way, it's all recombination.

All I want to be is, someone that makes, new things and, thinks about them.