Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

— Samuel Johnson

Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.

— David Bronstein

“When people try to destroy art or thought... it makes all forms of art and thought valuable. It's a slippery slope once we start…

— Michael Poore

I thought, 'O.K., if I'm a valuable person and an independent entity, then I don't have to worry about what people think of me.…

— John Cameron Mitchell

“Thus freedom of thought, in any valuable sense, includes freedom of speech.”

— John Bagnell Bury

It's both exciting and unsettling to have a realistic conversation with a computer. Thanks to the rapid advance of generative artificial intelligence, many of…

— Lina Khan

“In a real sense, these uncopyable values are things that are “better than free.” Free is good, but these are better since you’ll pay…

— Kevin Kelly

Your compassion travels beyond your own inner circle. And then you breathe out an alternative version where you mentally and emotionally and psychologically purify…

— Anne Waldman

“Generative thinking can inspire us to work within a vision for culture that is expressed in centuries and millennia rather than quarters, seasons, or…

— Makoto Fuijmura

There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.

— Walead Beshty

Generative ideas emerge from joint thinking, from significant conversations, and from sustained, shared struggles to achieve new insights from partners in thought.

— Anonymous

“Generative paths lead to resourcefulness, patience, and general creativity in all of life. They lead to cultural—and human—thriving.”

— Makoto Fuijmura

“Make a sketch, construct a model, or assemble a prototype. Then another. And another. With each attempt, you’ll reveal new possibilities for innovation. Your…

— Marty Neumeier

By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to sentences. Obviously,…

— Noam Chomsky

Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not…

— Brian Eno