Out-of-the-Box Thinking Quotes

If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.

Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The 'smart' people don't.

If everything you do works, then you're not taking many risks and probably aren't innovating either.

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Eighty percent of my job is to ask the question, 'If this were real, what would it look like?'

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

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'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.

The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.

Genius is often called crazy, but crazy is never called genius. So you just have to put out the work and let the chips fall where they may.

I've had great success being a total idiot.

The advantage for Nintendo is that we always try to do things that other companies don't try to do. That is something that the general public appreciates.

Remember: you cannot build a better mouse trap by fixing the old one - NewCo demands active ownership, and that activity is not the sum of doing multiple jobs but, instead, the sum of implementing paradigm-shifting changes that create new industries and solutions.

We must dare to think “unthinkable” thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about ‘unthinkable’ things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

I've got a pretty wild imagination, and a lot of times, I have to be reeled back in.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't something be done?' If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.