Irwin M. Jacobs Quotes

It's so inspiring to be around other people who have ideas you haven't thought of, and all of a sudden you're like, 'Wow! That's so amazing!' I definitely want everything I do to just get better and better.

Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth.

I want another idea, another project, but you can't make them up. They show up.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations.

Every morning I wake up with new ideas.

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

In my own life, I found that whenever I wasn't sure what to do next, I would go and learn a lot, read a lot, talk to experts. I don't know how the human brain works, but it's almost magical: when you read enough or talk to enough experts, when you have enough inputs, new ideas start appearing. This seems to happen for a lot of people that I know.

[...] beer results in ideas, which results in new code.

We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever.

Almost always, great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.

We usually don't have applications in mind. They come later.

Nothing in the world can be more exciting than to create something and see it work.

I'm always looking for inspiration.

I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

Watching TV on your own is not very inspiring. But meeting people is where you get new ideas and get things done.

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

I'm an inventor.

We can invent only with memory.

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.