Vivek Wadhwa Quotes

The myth that 'old' guys can't write anything fresh is just a myth.

By welcoming eager, talented workers, we expand America's potential for growth, and our competitive culture of invention and possibility.

The idea that I'm 45 doesn't mean that I have no creativity. I'm like a student: it's the same - it's not a war!

No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.

It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult.

I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

It was at this moment that I wrote my first important paper in theoretical physics. I was 32 years old, 5 years beyond the alleged age of senility for theorists.

The fact is that you are never too old to innovate.

My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.

Take away my people, but leave my factories, and soon grass will grow on the factory floors. Take away my factories, but leave my people, and soon we will have a new and better factory.

Our nation needs hard-working, innovative, dedicated people.

You cannot bet against the American worker. Don’t bet against American ingenuity

Age doesn't mean anything. Age doesn't mean I can't work as hard. Age doesn't mean I can't do as well as everyone else. It's just a factor. It's just there.

I think, the world over, new ideas have come from young people. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but it is rare that new or radical ideas come from old people.

My mother worked as an artist until she was 96.

A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.

Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today ... The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.

If you have a good idea, get it out there. For every idea I’ve realized, I have ten I sat on for a decade till someone else did it first. Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.

We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies - in the minds of those closest to the work.

Always push to be creative.

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.

No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game