James De La Vega Quotes

You cannot stop the human mind from working.

I like to make people think a little bit.

My brain's always working, and gears are turning 24/7. So I was trying to think of solutions.

We find that the more you talk about it, the more you head off any spontaneous inspiration that might happen.

I'm a thinker.

People say Wu-Tang makes you think too much. What's wrong with thinking?

The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.

I like to get people talking. I am a provocateur, and I do like getting on Twitter and riling people up. You know what, after a while some sane dialogue and sane conclusions come of that kind of thing.

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?'

There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.

I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.

I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.

To think is to differ.

Your wit makes others witty.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions.

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

There's so much to argue about. That was the goal with 'Really Really.' Somebody asked me once, 'How should I feel when I leave?' and I said, 'Hopefully, you're talkative.' I don't really care if you're happy or sad or loved it or hated it or hate me. The goal is that you have something to say, that you have a response.

Ideas never quite exist for him until they have been pitted against something else.

Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.

I have to challenge the audience.

I always like to think on a problem before reading about it.