Geoffrey S. Fletcher Quotes

In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

What man can imagine, man can do.

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

In the end, our minds and their ability to create new ideas are the ultimate source of all human wealth. That's a resource nearly without limit.

My training and my inclination is to invent.

Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

We should have more invention.

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. He tries and fails maybe a 1000 times. If he succeeds once, then he's in.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

I have a strong belief in creativity in humans. It's our biggest strength.

I believe technology serves us best when it gives us more time to do things that are uniquely human. This includes activities that are enjoyable, creative, and productive.

Our most valuable resources - creativity, communication, invention, and reinvention - are, in fact, unlimited.

There are people that are doing things that I would've never even thought possible.

Successful creative adults seem to combine the wide-ranging exploration and openness we see in children with the focus and discipline we see in adults.

I need to find creative diversity because if I get stuck, I get unhappy.

Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.