Deborah Eisenberg Quotes

I love challenging the status quo.

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't something be done?' If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them.

My approach to creating content is focused on pulling people out of their intellectual comfort zones. I'm interested in presenting ideas in unique ways that challenge people to question their assumptions.

I am playing with the assumptions that we have in our everyday life when we are tripped up or fooled and we learn something, that makes things exciting - I am having fun with that stuff, but you have to manage it so it doesn't get too cute, that's what I trying to work toward.

I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave.

The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

With science it's very important not to go down the wrong path, but the wrong path in science is a path you go down where everything you learn is already known. So you need to steer around the obvious.

Making a moonshot is almost more an exercise in creativity than it is in technology.

You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

I have discovered that for me - now, maybe it doesn't work for everybody - for me, it is much more effective to arrive at any situation as a man from Mars than to try to fit in.

Always listen to experts. They will tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.

To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought

I believe that nothing should be taboo - no theory or prejudice should close one's mind to a discovery.

I think there is something to be said for what you can do when you don't know what you aren't supposed to be able to do.

If you're inside the box and a cross is coming, sometimes you need, as we say in Spanish, to smell the intuition, to smell where the cross is going.

Conventional wisdom is not always the best wisdom.

When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.

I apply the term 'creativity' broadly... it's problem solving. We are all faced with problems, and we have to address them and think of something new, and that's where creativity comes in.