Heinrich Rohrer Quotes

Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.

I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.

Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.

In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field.

Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.

We did what we wanted to do, made it work, and made our own rules - and the best art we could - along the way.

The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions. We don't just take orders.

I know how to think outside of the box and be creative.

You know, when you look carefully at stuff that you deal with everyday, applying a little creativity to it and thinking outside the box, it's amazing what you can do.

The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men who are creative, inventive, and discovers. The second goal of education is to form minds which can be critical, can verify, and not accept everything they are offered.

A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security and direction, he can take care of himself, for he is the inventor not only of laws, theories, pictures, plays, forms of music, ways of dealing with his fellow man, institutions, but also entire world view, he is the inventor of entire forms of like.

The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think.

Making the complicated simple is true creativity.

The only ones who can really benefit by consulting the model are those who can produce their effect without a model.

To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.

To be creative, a person has to internalize the entire system that makes creativity possible. Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals.

For me, creativity includes problem-solving. That's the broad definition of it.

Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box

Dissent is the mark of freedom, as originality is the mark of independence of mind. … No one can be a scientist … if he does not have independence of observation and of thought.

Creativity is the antidote to destruction.

You have to think outside the box.

The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In the long run, innovation is cheap. Mediocrity is expensive—and autonomy can be the antidote.” TOM KELLEY General Manager, IDEO

The best way to get people to think outside the box is not to create the box in the first place.