Where do good new ideas come from? That's simple! From differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions. The best way to maximize differences is to mix ages, cultures and disciplines - Nicholas Negroponte
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored - Abraham Lincoln
Today's problems cannot be solved with the same thinking that created them - Albert Einstein
To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest - Pema Chodron
Those who worried about justification didn't really understand what the new agenda was about and didn't get the benefits. Meanwhile the pioneers had a 'gut feel' or were willing to experiment, and discover the benefits later - many of which were not originally anticipated - Measurement Myopia, 1997
This is what our rengas attempted: to devise a process that takes written snippets from many sources and turn them into a story. This is also what the scientific process does: to take many experiments and hypotheses from diverse groups and turn them, through institutions like peer-review, reputation and appointment, into an accumulating view of the nature of things. And it is what the market does: to take individual motivations, desires and life-plans and turn them into products. And it is even what Klee was famous for doing, taking a diversity of techniques, themes and association and assembling these into single coherent paintings. http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/the_conditions_of_quality
They copied all they could follow but they couldn't copy my mind, and I left 'em sweating and stealing and a year and a half behind - Rudyard Kipling
There is always a shortage of monomaniacs and awkward sods, so necessary to champion new products and ideas - Simon Majaro
There are in fact four very different stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth... the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge - Roger Bacon (1214-1294)