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“Creativity is not simply originality and unlimited freedom. There is much more to it than that. Creativity also imposes restrictions. While it uses methods other than those of ordinary thinking, it must not be in disagreement with ordinary thinking-or rather, it must be something that, sooner or later, ordinary thinking will understand, accept, and appreciate. Otherwise the result would be bizarre, not creative.”
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“Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them.”
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“I like to think that I'm not as ominous in real life.”
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“Mondays are a good day to make statements, not Friday.”
Source : "Tiger Woods' timing of statement is 'selfish', claims Ernie Els". www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2010.
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“Normally, architects render a service. They implement what other people want. This is not what I do. I like to develop the use of the building together with the client, in a process, so that as we go along we become more intelligent.”
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“Despite the dazzling successes of modern technology and the unprecedented power of modern military systems, they suffer from a common and catastrophic fault. While providing us with a bountiful supply of food, with great industrial plants, with high-speed transportation, and with military weapons of unprecedented power, they threaten our very survival.”
Source : barry commoner (1966). “science and survival”
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“I hated science in high school. Technology? Engineering? Math? Why would I ever need this? Little did I realize that music was also about science, technology, engineering and mathematics, all rolled into one.”
Source : "There’s a Fire on the Mountain" by Mickey Hart, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2011.
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“Journeys become very good metaphors. They always have the character put into circumstances that reveal him. If I had based my characters in New York and had them just sitting and thinking about life, it would be like what contemporary U.S. fiction is about. That is very heavy, literally, for me. It doesn't become mainstream enough because the pages don't turn themselves.”
Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net