Nicholas Negroponte Quotes

Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.

I've never had a really creative idea sitting at my desk. All the big ideas that made a difference happened when I was playing outside.

Flood your life with ideas from many sources. Creativity needs to be exercised like a muscle. If you don't use it, you'll lose it!

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

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn't been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

I feel so free and open to ideas, and I get inspired by everything.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

The great thing about ideas is that every new idea leads to two more new ones. It’s the opposite of a gold rush, where the more people who show up in 1849 to get that gold in California, the faster the gold runs out. Ideas are not like that; ideas breed.

I love to get inspiration from everywhere.

I think it's healthy that people that work in a creative field look for inspiration in a different creative field.

I now know that inspirations must come from everywhere.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

Never listen to music when you're trying go come up with a Big Idea.

But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!

We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. "Oh, that's not necessary," he replied . "It's so seldom I have one.

I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six months ago, I'll bring it back into the playing field. I can tweak ideas or make them better. Just come up with something and then we go from there.

I usually just have ideas when I have them.

Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither.

When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other fields, I like to have them all in the same workshop, and not worry about genre. I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to be very different than what you'll get from a poet. Or the comments you'll get from a filmmaker about your performance are going to be very different. My writing workshop is about mixing it up, cross-pollinating, not only in genres but in occupations.

All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.

That’s the key to new and good ideas; they come from having a very broad and multidisciplinary range of interests.

I don't practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it.

Some of the best ideas come sort of out of nowhere and when you're not expecting it.