Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

I actually don’t read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

The arts don’t exist in isolation.

If you’re waiting for the perfect moment, you’ll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There’s nothing foolproof.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

If you hear a voice within you say ‚you cannot paint,‘ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

I am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter.

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we note the effects of strange forces which we bring into play, which allow us to transform, to transmit and direct energy at will.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It’s an individual-feel thing, you know?

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

You make ‚em, I amuse ‚em.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

My goal in music is to create nostalgic moments.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren’t thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about – they weren’t putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

How do people relate to movies now, when they’re on portable devices or streaming them? It’s not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you’re forced back on your own imagination.

If you count E-mail, I’m on the Internet all day, every day.

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I’m blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.

I think right now it’s a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right now iPhone and Android are winning that battle.

Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it’s still being invented; we’re still trying to work out how it works. There’s a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn’t recognise. It’s time for the machines to disappear. The computer’s got to disappear into all of the things we use.

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn’t mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.

The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

I love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

I can’t see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That’s terrible.

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

We’re going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

The human race is governed by its imagination.