Imagination Quotes

The ability to see what isn't there yet. Dreamers and builders on the power of 'what if.'

16884 quotes

"The imaginative faculty is a most important one to cultivate in the study of mathematics."
Ada Lovelace
"The human imagination, when directed properly, is capable of miraculous discoveries."
Ada Lovelace
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"What we call imagination is just our brain's ability to recombine patterns it has already learned."
Carver Mead
C
"Imagination is the brain's ability to simulate possibilities before they become real."
Carver Mead
G
"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions."
Gordon Moore
G
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Gordon Moore
S
"You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them."
Steve Wozniak
S
"The best ideas come from everywhere, you just have to be open to them."
Steve Wozniak
S
"I was always more interested in what could be than what was."
Steve Wozniak
J
"The ENIAC was massive, but our minds had to be even larger to comprehend its possibilities."
Jean Jennings Bartik
J
"Without abstraction, we are forever trapped in the concrete."
John von Neumann
J
"An algorithm is a finite description of an infinite process."
John von Neumann
D
"Imagination is more powerful than knowledge because it creates possibility."
Donna Dubinsky
D
"Imagination is the only limit to what's possible."
Donna Dubinsky
C
"Imagination is the only limit to what we might achieve."
Carver Mead
C
"Imagination is constrained only by our willingness to believe in possibilities."
Carver Mead
"The imaginative faculty is one that I am always anxious to strengthen and improve."
Ada Lovelace
"I believe in the power of imagination to shape reality."
Ada Lovelace
G
"The future is created by those who refuse to accept current limitations."
Gordon Moore
G
"The best innovations come from those who remain childlike in their curiosity."
Gordon Moore
S
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it"
Steve Wozniak
S
"The greatest innovations often come from outsiders who don't know the rules"
Steve Wozniak
A
"You must think bigger than your current circumstances allow."
Andy Grove
J
"Imagination is the laboratory where all human progress is born."
John von Neumann
J
"Imagination without discipline produces fantasy; discipline without imagination produces mechanical mediocrity."
John von Neumann
S
"The future belongs to those who can imagine it first."
Steve Wozniak
S
"The greatest discoveries come from asking 'what if?'"
Steve Wozniak
S
"Imagination is more important than knowledge; knowledge is limited."
Steve Wozniak
G
"The most powerful force isn't computation—it's human creativity."
Gordon Moore
"A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."
Tim Cook