Ray Kurzweil Quotes

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!

What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket.

Constraint inspires creativity

I think it's a big part of being a creative person.

There is something more important than logic: imagination

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

Being creative isn't confined to a specific set of professions -- everyone can and should be innovative.

Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.

Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run out of analogies in the thirty-first century.

We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

Creativity is just connecting things.

I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

I think to be creative you have to resist taking the easy path.

If you are creative enough to imagine a problem, you're clever enough to discover a solution.

IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

Far more interesting than problem solving is problem creation.

Imagination might not be limitless. It's still tethered to the universe of what we know.

It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

All that you can imagine you already know.

Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.

It's difficult to get your creative juices flowing if you're always being practical, following rules, afraid to make mistakes, not looking into outside areas, or under the influence of any of the other mental locks.

When I worked on the polio vaccine, I had a theory. I guided each [experiment] by imagining myself in the phenomenon in which I was interested. The intuitive realm . . . the realm of the imagination guides my thinking.