Complex Ideas Quote by Neal Stephenson

“The inventor...looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to…

— Alexander Graham Bell

“We're all innately creative; I'm not bringing anything magical to it. Ninety percent of inventing is putting in the hours and just trying. You…

— James Jorash

“He has discovered the truths that keep writers chained to their desks: the primacy of the inner life and the sheer exhilaration of creating…

— Barbara Klein Moss

“I regard the discovery of one’s favorite author as the most critical event in one’s intellectual development.”

— Lin Yutang

“Ideas tell a lot about a person who generated them.”

— Eraldo Banovac

“More than anyone else of his time, he made products that were completely innovative, combining the power of poetry and processors. With a ferocity…

— Walter Isaacson

“Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Your brain will come up with a lot of ideas, that doesn't mean you have to go along with the very first one!”

— G. L. Strytler

Loewe inspires me. The way Jonathan Anderson's brain works... He's inventing, not just for the sake of new, new, new. It comes from a…

— Greta Lee

“Anyone who has spent time in the company of small children knows that a crushing boredom can unlock great powers of invention.”

— Michael Chabon

“…no person, no matter how vivid an imagination he may have, can invent anything half so droll as the freaks and fancies that originate…

— Louisa May Alcott

“It is interesting to note how often a technological development—such as Gutenberg’s—promotes rather than eliminates that which it is supposed to supersede.”

— Anna Quindlen