Quotes:

"...creativity is a prime need of a human being and its denial brings about a pervasive state of dissatisfaction and boredom."

"The general decline of creativity in a society is itself a kind of 'illness' which must ultimately bring about its destruction."

David Bohm and F. David Peat, Science, Order and Creativity

"The creative process cannot be summoned at will or even cajoled by sacrificial offering. Indeed, it seems to occur most readily when the mind is relaxed and the imagination roaming freely."

Morris Kline, Scientific American, March 1955 q. in Martin Gardner, Aha! Insight.

"...organizational learning occurs in three ways: through teaching, through 'changing the rules of the game' and through play."

Arie de Geus, Shell Oil Co q. in Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline

"All this technology is wonderful. But only up to a point. It is not supposed to replace human relationships. It's just supposed to make them easier."

David Singer Senior Software Engineer, I.B.M.

"There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting. Consider this utterly commonplace situation: a man is walking down the street. At a certain moment, he tries to recall something, but the recollection escapes him. Automatically, he slows down. Meanwhile, a person who wants to forget a disagreeable incident he has just lived through starts unconsciously to speed up his pace, as if he were trying to distance himself from a thing still too close to him in time. In existential mathematics, that experience takes the form of two basic equations: the degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting."

Milan Kundera, Slowness

" A genuinely new, credible idea is likely to appear non-credible. "

NASA

"Fortune favors the prepared mind."

Louis Pasteur