Geoffrey Hinton Quotes

The 'Friday sessions' refer to something that you're not paid for and not supposed to do during your professional life. Curiosity-driven research. Something random, simple, maybe a bit weird - even ridiculous. Without it, there are no discoveries.

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

While it is quite reasonable for scientists to be skeptical of new ideas that do not fit within the accepted realm of scientific knowledge, the best science often emerges from situations where results carefully obtained do not fit within the accepted paradigms.

A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

We especially need imagination in science.

New questions can produce new scientific leaps. They can tiddlywink new flips of insight and understanding. Big ones. Paradigm shifts.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

I don't want a lot of guys like me who played the game. Quite frankly, I want blank canvases; I want people to come in with new ideas. I don't want the biases of their own experiences to be a part of their decision-making process.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Since when was genius found respectable?

We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.

A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.

There are many men now living who were in the habit of using the age-old expression: 'It is as impossible as flying.' The discoveries in physical science, the triumphs in invention, attest the value of the process of trial and error. In large measure, these advances have been due to experimentation.

I have a lot of ideas come to me when I'm working that are different from the plan, and sometimes that can be a little overwhelming and difficult for directors.

Imagination should always be treasured, even when it's slightly off-key.

Genius doesn't always come in neat packages.

I think you have to be creative to make a difference in science.

I take random inspiration from everywhere.

Innovation is very important to me, especially professionally. The alternative, standing pat, leads to complacency, rigidity and eventually failure.

Innovation is not born from the dream, innovation is born from the struggle

Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is the prototype. They trusted themselves.