Welcome to IWE2009 - 6th International WEEK of ESEC
You cant solve a problem on the same level that it was created. You have to rise above it to the next level. Albert Einstein

What is now proved was once only imagined. William Blake

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. Rollo May

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Goethe

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start. Charles Baudelaire

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. W. Somerset Maugham

Creativity consists of coming up with many ideas, not just that one great idea. - Charles Thompson

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. Albert Einstein

The way to succeed is to double your failure rate. Thomas Watson, Founder of IBM

Inventing is mixing brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less materials you need. Charles F. Kettering

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction. Anonymous

Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself. Robert Louis Stevenson

The creative mind plays with the object it loves. Carl Jung

If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it. Gordon MacKenzie

A problem well stated is a problem half solved. Charles Kettering

Not everything that counts can be counted; and not everything that can be counted counts. Albert Einstein

Life is trying things to see if they work. Ray Bradbury

The man with a new idea is a crankuntil the idea succeeds. Mark Twain

New opinions are always suspected and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. John Locke

If youre not prepared to be wrong, youll never come up with anything original. Sir Ken Robinson

The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child. Thomas Edison

There's a way to do it betterfind it. Thomas Edison

Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. Albert Einstein

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found. James Russell Lowell

It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas. Charles Peguy

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. Howard Aiken

The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. Peter Drucker

The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas. Linus Pauling

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths. Steven Wright

You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt

Dont be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You cant cross a chasm in two small jumps. David Lloyd George

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. Picasso

99 percent of success is built on failure. Charles Kettering

Never confuse motion with action. Ernest Hemingway

A definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Rita Mae Brown

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Albert Einstein

Genius is infinite painstaking. Michelangelo

The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development. Alfred North Whitehead

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock pile when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind. Antoine Saint-Exupery

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next. Jonas Salk

To accomplish great things we must dream as well as act. Anatole France

The human mind once stretched by a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away. Linus Pauling

Originality is simply a fresh pair of eyes. Woodrow Wilson

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Edwin Land

The things we fear most in organizationsfluctuations, disturbances, imbalancesre the primary sources of creativity. Margaret J. Wheatley

In the beginners mind there are many possibilities; in the experts mind there are few. Shunryu Suzuki

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence, nor imagination, nor both together, go to the making of genius. Love, Love, Love. That is the soul of genius. Mozart

If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong. Charles Kettering

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. Hannah More

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. Arthur Koestler

The best way to predict the future is to create it. Alan Kay

If you are speaking from experience, you are already out of date. Dennis Waitley

Anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. The creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport. Robert Wieder

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. George Lois

Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money. William J. Cameron

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have. Emile Chartier

Replace 'either/or' thinking with 'plus' thinking. Craig Hickman

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. Anais Nin

Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are just produced. A.N. Whitehead

The achievement of excellence can occur only if the organization promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction. Lawrence Miller

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe- you can't take a taxi. Alan Alda

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. William James

Do not fear mistakes. There are none. Miles Davis

When all think alike, then no one is thinking. Walter Lippman

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. Jonathan Swift

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. Erich Fromm

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil. Thomas Edison

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried. Frank Tyger

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied. Alfred Nobel

If you insist on certainty, you will paralyze yourself. J. P. Getty

The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If youre an atheist, pretend how God would do it. Frank Lloyd Wright

Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learnt. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and where appropriate profits. Edward de Bono

If you can dream it, you can do it. Walt Disney

No matter how well you perform, theres always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks its lousy. Sir Laurence Olivier

Originality is a fresh pair of eyes. Woodrow Wilson

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out of date. Roger von Oech

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. John Dewey

You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways. M. Minsky

The profit of great ideas comes when you turn them into reality. - Tom Hopkins

In every work of genius, we recognize our once rejected thoughts. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future. James Bertrand

To have a great idea, have a lot of them. Thomas Edison

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions Albert Einstein

Ill play it first and tell you what it is later. Miles Davis

The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Edwin H. Land

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered. Winston Churchill

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier. Charles F. Kettering

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. Victor Hugo

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. Fyodor Dostoevsky

We dont know a millionth of one percent about anything. Thomas Edison

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. Albert Szent-Gyorgi

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. Abraham Maslow

Sit, walk, or run, but dont wobble. Zen proverb

If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think. Clarence Darrow

Swipe from the best, then adapt. Tom Peters

Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Thomas Edison

Everything should be as simple as it is, but no simpler. Albert Einstein

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order that is not yet understood. Henry Miller

Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns. Edward de Bono

Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form. Watts Humprey

Now that we have met with paradox we have some hope of making progress. Niels Bohr

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world! Joel A. Barker

We have approximately 60,000 thoughts in a day. Unfortunately, 95% of them are thoughts we had the day before. Deepak Chopra

I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it. Steven Wright

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things. Theodore Levitt


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