True Creativity Is Characterized By A Succession

In My Opinion, Neither Organisms Nor Organizations Evolve Slowly And Surely Into Something Better, But Drift Until Some Small Change Occurs Which Has Immediate And Overwhelming Significance. The Special Role Of The Human Being Is Not To Wait For These Favorable Accidents But Deliberately To Introduce The Small Change That Will Have Great Significance.

A Significant Inventionmust Be Startling, Unexpected. It Must Come To A World That Is Not Prepared For It.

The First Thing You Do Is Teach The Person To Feel That The Vision Is Very Important And Nearly Impossible. That Draws Out The Drive In The Winner.

When Arthur Ashe Plays Tennis, His Purpose Each Day Is To Play The Game In A Way He Has Never Played It Before. It May Be A Backhand He Uses, One That He May Never Have Used Before In That Circumstance. His Play Is A Fresh Integration Of His World At The Instant Of Action. A Really Great Scientist Has The Whole Past At His Disposal. At Any Instant He Is Rebuilding The World, Molecule By Molecule, In His Subconscious. That Is What You Want In An Athlete Or A Scientist.

Fifty Years After We Undertook To Make The First Synthetic Polarizers We Find Them The Essential Layer In Digital Liquid-crystal. And Thirty Four Years After We Undertook To Make The First Instant Camera And Film, Our Kind Of Photography Has Become Ubiquitous.