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Predictions can sound really good if you're good with words and can express them eloquently and give people ideas and inspiration in their head. But I'm not really good at that, so I don't want to.
Sep 18, 2025
I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.
What inspires me is what I see people wearing on the streets of the world from New York to London and beyond. I get my ideas and inspiration from pounding the pavement all over the world. Today, fashion is dictated by individual style. To me, the fashion of the future is anything that a young guy or girl feels good wearing as long as it's put together in the right way.
Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.
There is no such thing as a boring person: everyone has stories and insights worth sharing. While on the road, we let our phones or laptops take up our attention. By doing that, we might miss out on the chance to learn and absorb ideas and inspiration from an unexpected source: our fellow travelers.
Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
Photographers do themselves a disservice by talking too much about the equipment they use. Consequently people don't take them seriously as creators in their own right. When people talk to writers about their work, they ask about their ideas and inspirations. When they talk to photographers, they ask about what cameras or film they use. That's wrong - as wrong as asking a writer what pencil and laptop he uses.
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my work should not fall into that category. Thus, I follow the literature on programming languages and the debates about programming languages primarily looking for ideas for solutions to problems my colleagues and I have encountered in real applications. Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.
You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
If you think you can't, you're right.
All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
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