Welcome to IWE2009 - 6th International WEEK of ESEC
Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction. Anonymous
Replace 'either/or' thinking with 'plus' thinking. Craig Hickman
The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Edwin H. Land
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
What is now proved was once only imagined. William Blake
A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths. Steven Wright
The best way to predict the future is to create it. Alan Kay
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
Ill play it first and tell you what it is later. Miles Davis
You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways. M. Minsky
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
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think. Clarence Darrow
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
To have a great idea, have a lot of them. Thomas Edison
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. Hannah More
Originality is simply a fresh pair of eyes. Woodrow Wilson
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Goethe
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have. Emile Chartier
The achievement of excellence can occur only if the organization promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction. Lawrence Miller
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied. Alfred Nobel
Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. Albert Szent-Gyorgi
Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are just produced. A.N. Whitehead
Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe- you can't take a taxi. Alan Alda
The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child. Thomas Edison
To accomplish great things we must dream as well as act. Anatole France
A definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Rita Mae Brown
In the beginners mind there are many possibilities; in the experts mind there are few. Shunryu Suzuki
Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money. William J. Cameron
If you are speaking from experience, you are already out of date. Dennis Waitley
Swipe from the best, then adapt. Tom Peters
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world! Joel A. Barker
Inventing is mixing brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less materials you need. Charles F. Kettering
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. George Lois
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
New opinions are always suspected and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. John Locke
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. John Dewey
It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas. Charles Peguy
99 percent of success is built on failure. Charles Kettering
The man with a new idea is a crankuntil the idea succeeds. Mark Twain
The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. Peter Drucker
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. Albert Einstein
Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future. James Bertrand
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next. Jonas Salk
Everything should be as simple as it is, but no simpler. Albert Einstein
When all think alike, then no one is thinking. Walter Lippman
Creativity consists of coming up with many ideas, not just that one great idea. - Charles Thompson
We have approximately 60,000 thoughts in a day. Unfortunately, 95% of them are thoughts we had the day before. Deepak Chopra
A problem well stated is a problem half solved. Charles Kettering
Sit, walk, or run, but dont wobble. Zen proverb
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
The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas. Linus Pauling
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. W. Somerset Maugham
Never confuse motion with action. Ernest Hemingway
Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things. Theodore Levitt
If youre not prepared to be wrong, youll never come up with anything original. Sir Ken Robinson
You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt
The profit of great ideas comes when you turn them into reality. - Tom Hopkins
We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. Anais Nin
If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it. Gordon MacKenzie
The human mind once stretched by a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. Arthur Koestler
Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns. Edward de Bono
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil. Thomas Edison
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
Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried. Frank Tyger
Life is trying things to see if they work. Ray Bradbury
Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself. Robert Louis Stevenson
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. Picasso
The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away. Linus Pauling
Not everything that counts can be counted; and not everything that can be counted counts. Albert Einstein
The creative mind plays with the object it loves. Carl Jung
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
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. Jonathan Swift
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
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Edwin Land
Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Thomas Edison
Do not fear mistakes. There are none. Miles Davis
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. Abraham Maslow
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
In every work of genius, we recognize our once rejected thoughts. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. Fyodor Dostoevsky
There's a way to do it betterfind it. Thomas Edison
Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. William James
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. Erich Fromm
Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form. Watts Humprey
Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier. Charles F. Kettering
The way to succeed is to double your failure rate. Thomas Watson, Founder of IBM
Now that we have met with paradox we have some hope of making progress. Niels Bohr
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions Albert Einstein
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered. Winston Churchill
If you can dream it, you can do it. Walt Disney
The things we fear most in organizationsfluctuations, disturbances, imbalancesre the primary sources of creativity. Margaret J. Wheatley
The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development. Alfred North Whitehead
Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. Albert Einstein
The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If youre an atheist, pretend how God would do it. Frank Lloyd Wright
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order that is not yet understood. Henry Miller
There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start. Charles Baudelaire
We dont know a millionth of one percent about anything. Thomas Edison
Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found. James Russell Lowell
Dont be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You cant cross a chasm in two small jumps. David Lloyd George
If you insist on certainty, you will paralyze yourself. J. P. Getty
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong. Charles Kettering
Genius is infinite painstaking. Michelangelo
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. Victor Hugo
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Albert Einstein
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