Linus Torvalds Quotes

I believe in being completely open to the most unlikely explanation.

My kids do very extraordinary things that make sense.

When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.

Everyone is super creative in the family.

In addition to making Android available for free, Google also lets phone makers change the code and customize it so that an Android phone made by, say, Samsung has a different user interface than an Android phone from Motorola.

I always like to write myself into a corner. I think the best stuff comes from only having a few ways out.

The advantage for Nintendo is that we always try to do things that other companies don't try to do. That is something that the general public appreciates.

Being a game changer to me means changing the way other people see things.

You can't say there is only one way of doing things, the police way of ensuring law and order.

I just like having creative solutions to tricky situations.

The fact is that creativity is everywhere. It's just about the way that you look at things.

I think sometimes a part requires more than one approach or thought.

Cyanogen has done an interesting job with their version of Android - the Cyanogenmod. And they're on 50-million-plus devices. And that's just another ecosystem that we wanted to tap into and to bring our Office apps to.

I apply the term 'creativity' broadly... it's problem solving. We are all faced with problems, and we have to address them and think of something new, and that's where creativity comes in.

The amount of random conversations that lead to culture-shifting ideas is insane.

I have some ideas for things nobody's done before, and some are ideas bigger than me that I might be able to pull off, maybe.

When I give talks, I often quote from a button I received at a Google event: Always Be Creative. I use it to illustrate how important creativity is in technology and business.

I like trying to be creative.

When you have different kinds of scientific and mathematical minds approaching problems, you will get more solutions. This leads to more innovation and more creative design.

Everybody's trying to repeat the past with the new network, with new devices and new tools. Why not make something brand-new?

Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.

Nintendo, as a company, prides itself on doing things differently.

Most jobs require some degree of creativity and flexible thinking.

Rarely, someone comes around that is influenced by so many things but is looking for a new way to do something.

An experimental idea doesn't have to be separated from a mainstream context. The really exciting thing is where those two things are together. That's where you can get real change.