Marvin Minsky Quotes

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.

Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.

When you have an employee who's innovative in your organization, what are they thinking about in the shower? If they're working in an exciting place, they're not thinking what they're going to do over the weekend. They're thinking: 'How do I solve that problem?'

The new idea for me now is creativity. I like to express myself.

We are all innovators, we all like to use our imagination, which is our greatest tool.

Why is it that, when we want to think outside the proverbial box, we often put ourselves in one? We gather our team in a conference room, plaster the walls with sticky paper, and wait for the ideas to flow in a stream of marker scribbles. How often has your quest for innovation peaked at renovation - new dressing on old ideas?

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.

Kids have some of the best ideas - bringing new eyes to old problems.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.

No matter what problem you encounter, whether it's a grand challenge for humanity or a personal problem of your own, there's an idea out there that can overcome it. And you can find that idea.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.

I think if you're really good at what you do, you can see outside the box.

Creativity is a huge part of my game as a player. It helps open doors which others don't see.

The genius is making a way out of no way.

Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.

Instead of being intimidated by the limitations, be inspired to find new ways around them.

As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.

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