Trip Hawkins Quotes

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

I love creating. I love being with creative people who can think quickly on their feet.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

Creativity is the art of the impossible

For better or worse, our future is now closely tied to human creativity.

Creating is no problem - problem solving is not creating.

If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will be poor in ideas. If he could take what he wants wherever he could find it, as Euripides and Dante and Michelangelo and Shakespeare and Bach were free, his larder would always be full, and his cookery might be worth tasting.

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

Solve problems, make art, think deeply.

Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.

[...] beer results in ideas, which results in new code.

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.

In this respect a program is like a poem: you cannot write a poem without writing it. Yet people talk about programming as if it were a production process and measure "programmer productivity" in terms of "number of lines of code produced". In so doing they book that number on the wrong side of the ledger: we should always refer to "the number of lines of code spent".

Creativity is just connecting things.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.

Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.