Bruce Dickinson Quotes

When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.

I like to make people think a little bit.

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

My explorations of the technical world started with Legos, with which I was quite creative in constructing moving objects with the basic building blocks that were then available.

Studying engineering was natural for me; I was always interested in technology and building things.

I'm an engineer by trade, and what engineers do is they go and build, and they don't think a lot about storytelling.

I just want people to be excited about hard stuff, that's what engineering is.

Problem-solving is essential to engineering. Engineers are constantly on the lookout for a better way to do things.

The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas

Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains.

I love working with technology because it allows me to follow my imagination and to invent new things.

Engineering is not quite as important as imagination.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

I'm not a designer, I'm an inventor.

You cannot stop the human mind from working.

I've had a bit of experience at lots and lots of different arenas as it were, some of them completely creative, some of them quite technical. The interesting thing is, is that I found that the technical arenas actually are also very creative or can be very creative.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

I think I'd be quite good at Builder, like designer, construction... I've always liked making things. I'm quite good with my hands. So I think I'd be quite good at designing new inventions.

I'm an inventor.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

People simply learn to process information to the point where it doesn't serve true creativity.

I'm raised to actually think, to use my brain.

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.