Saul Griffith Quotes

It's [programming] the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an incredible, rigorous, technical element to it, which I like because you have to do very precise thinking. On the other hand, it has a wildly creative side where the boundaries of imagination are the only real limitation.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

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

It was a case of the technology catching up with the problem.

Depending on the kind of code you write, depending on the kind of ideas you have, you can be creative in problem-solving and you can really make things work in a very gratifying way.

Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.

What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful . . . Great designers also pursue a mission. Great designers design with mankind in mind . . . The crossroads of science and art, innovation and inspiration are what I love about design.

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.

Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.

With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.

Turns out, what I love doing is making games. Not hyping games or trying to sell a lot of copies. I just want to experiment and develop and think and tinker and tweak.

Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct.

Imagination decides everything.

I don't design cars. I'm not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the end result is, the horsepower, the competition we'll be working against - but I leave it to the people who work with me to put it all together. I don't do anything.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on very interesting challenges.

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.

It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.

I'm one of those actors who is going to come in with 2,500 ideas. You can shoot down 2,499, but one of them you're going to like.

To design something really new and innovative you have to reject reason.