David Brin Quotes

You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.

All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.

You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail

I think we shouldn't buckle up our creativity. You've got to experiment!

I miss that thing I used to do when I first started out where I would just spontaneously generate ideas and try things and see where they'd go.

Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist.

Innovation, creativity, and lunacy goes hand in hand.

My job is to put as many ideas out there as possible every day. Some of them will get traction, some won't - some of them shouldn't.

Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas.

If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.

Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.

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

Don't worry about mistakes. Making things out of mistakes, that's creativity.

I think one of the things about creativity is not to be afraid of saying the wrong thing.

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen.

Well, what I try to do is throw as much mud on the wall as I possibly can and just see what sticks, what shines as quirky or more interesting that the others, and I try to cling onto that one, somehow join a link from there to there.