Steven Pinker Quotes

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

I've got a lot of crazy plans.

I'm creative; I'm not re-creative.

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.

I hardly see myself as a futurist.

‎We need to become more unreasonable but in an intelligent way.

It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

I'm very proud of my dyslexia. I wouldn't have it any other way. It sits absolutely with what I do, how I think, and who I am.

I was always excited about doing things with people that were ahead of their time, that were sort of out of sync with the rest of society.

In tech communities, we consider disruption the way to lead to innovation.

I feel like I'm just built differently.

I pride myself on being able to create mismatches. That's what I've done my whole life.

A lot of mythology surrounds British inventor Geoffrey Pyke. He supposedly made people come to his bedside to see his designs because getting up and getting dressed took too long.

I never wanted a traditional lifestyle. I'm not that kind of person.

I've always known that I have a different mentality. I can move in different ways and that's for people to realize.

I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that.

I've always appreciated a creative approach to action, doing things that people don't expect, tweaking things to make them different.

I never looked at being second banana to anybody, I never felt that way, ever. If other people did, that's the way they looked at it, but I never did.

What I am interested in are the philosophies of the future. That's what drives me.

I wasn't a defender and I didn't think of myself as one.

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.

Tap the energy of the anarchist and he will be the one to push your company ahead.

If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman.