Ronnie Corbett Quotes

Don't reinvent the wheel, just realign it.

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.

Juggling many projects and having all these accidental collisions that you can't predict enables a kind of comparative thinking. To focus on a single project from beginning to end is extremely difficult, not just for me, but for many people.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.

I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety to my advantage.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn't grow in abundance, it grows from scarcity - the more Lego bricks you have doesn't mean you're going to be more creative; you can be very creative with very few Lego bricks.

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much.

Much of my work has come from being lazy.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

My father, who was a hair colourist, died when I was young, so my mother had to work very hard. But at the same time, I do believe that if you have everything, it is easy to make a dinner. When you only have flour and water and olives and potatoes, you have to be much more creative, and that's what my mother is all about.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

We had all this kind of freedom and 'get out of your head' kind of stuff and at the same time, we were trying to establish ourselves in the business. These two things are really difficult to bring together.

So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe.

Working harder is not a sustainable solution and it's not how people meet their destiny. It's time to get more creative. Instead of choosing one thing we love over something else we love, we must ask, 'how can I do both?' And, then, we can find solutions.

I do want to write again. I hope to. But it's also important for me to realize, as I get older, that I don't have to be doing everything all at once.

We try to develop products that seem somehow inevitable, that leave you with the sense that that's the only possible solution that makes sense.

Apple excels at taking existing concepts - computers, MP3 players, conceit - and carefully streamlining them into glistening ergonomic chunks of concentrated aspiration.

My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.

My life's goal is to get rid of computers and invent everything that removes its necessity.