Linus Torvalds Quotes

A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once.

As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.

All it takes is one idea to solve an impossible problem.

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

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.

Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.

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.

Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.

It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.

My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.

If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Don't reinvent the wheel, just realign it.

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

I'd never worked in fashion or retail. I just needed an undergarment that didn't exist.

It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.

A good head has one hundred hands.

If you rely only on experience, you'll simply keep applying old solutions to new problems.

It always helps to have someone who can say, No, we can do it faster this way, or We have to break the rules, even our own rules, to get things done.

When I worked with Billie Jean King and Craig Kardon, and we would be working on something, Billie would show up and say, 'What about this?' Neither one of us had seen it.

For Stripe, being inventive is just about applying the right solutions from other areas.