Otto Weininger Quotes

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.

I had elements that were much more than what Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates had. If I work according to their methods, what will I create? All of this was in my head when I was young.

The people who succeed are those who are aware of the rules; they respect the rules. But they make up their own rules. They create for creative sake.

There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do.

James Cameron thinks we can do anything. He'll let you try anything. There are very few geniuses in the world, let alone in our business, and he's certainly one of them.

That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things that anyone could have thought of are very rare men.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.

Peter had a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing.

If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history.

Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive.

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.

Creativity is not and never has been sensible.

I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things; and a most perplexing problem it is. Many men who are very clever - much cleverer than the discoverers - never originate anything.

True genius does not fulfill expectations; true genius shatters it.

There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.

Genius appeals to the future.

There is a fine line between insanity and genius.

The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources

Genius is insanity right up until it works.

Inspiration and genius -one and the same.