Luis von Ahn Quotes

Good and bad ideas both come from the same fountain of speculation and experiment.

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea!

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

There's a joy in having the molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the night before.

Once I began to hear and pay attention to my fledgling ideas, the biggest hurdle was to learn how to respect them. That was hard, because the real way to respect an idea is to invest the attention and work needed to develop it.

I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.

I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six months ago, I'll bring it back into the playing field. I can tweak ideas or make them better. Just come up with something and then we go from there.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.

The idea for any cartoon (my experience, anyway) is rarely spontaneous. Good ideas usually evolve out of pretty lame ones, and vice versa.

I write every day... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good.

I tend to wake up in the middle of the night with ideas crying to be documented.

The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.

I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'

I do think that I'm a big believer in having an idea or having ideas and just tucking them away in the back of your brain. Even if you aren't consciously thinking of them, I think they simmer. You're working on them, even if you don't know you're working on them, and I think having something in your head for a while is a valuable thing.

I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!

The hardest part is developing the idea, and that can take years.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Creative people identify promising, exciting, and, most important, accessible routes to progress - and eventually formulate the questions correctly.

You can talk good ideas out of existence.

Ninety percent of the research comes first. I mostly blunder around reading stuff and talking to smart people until an idea batters or oozes its way through to my narrative brain.

I enjoyed working with Vikram Kumar, as he is an amazing director who is full of ideas, and he tells me that he has different compartments in his brain in which he places different story ideas and works on them simultaneously.

To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.