Nicholas Negroponte Quotes

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent.

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. A prominent educator tells me that fairy tales are of untold value in developing imagination in the young. I believe it.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.

I've always been a bit of an inventor, just making up weird things people haven't thought of before. I can't tell you exactly what, though, because they might actually happen one day!

There is no oil so thick as to destroy the imagination.

At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there.

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.

Imagination is the beginning of reality.

The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination."

Like a heartbeat. Something inside me. Some dream. I think it's being a dreamer as a child. Dreamy kids become actors, don't they?

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy.

One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.

While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

Dreaming is one of humanity’s greatest gifts; it champions aspiration, spurs innovation, leads to change, and propels the world forward.

Really interesting things come because you don't know what the rules are, what you can and can't do.

So much of creativity is the feeling that you're either getting a gift from some other dimension or some other part of yourself.

When you think like a child your imagination is free and anything is possible.

Young people don't have a fantasy life anymore, not the way we did. All they've got is Kojak and Dirty Harry. There's all these kids running around wanting to be killer cops.

You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.