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Imagination is cheap if you don’t worry about the details.

Daniel Dennettcognitive scientist

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It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that swing

Duke Ellington

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Necessity might be the mother of invention, but restriction is the mother of efficiency.

Terry Gilliam

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'Cause Beans and Cornbread
They go hand-in-hand

Louis JordanInventor of Rock and Roll

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heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.

John Barth

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Work which remains permeated with the play attitude is art—in quality if not in conventional designation.

John Dewey

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

William James

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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

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The difference between a good artist and a bad one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal, the good one really does.

William Blake

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Solidarity is not discovered by reflection but created.

Richard Rorty

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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Virginia Woolf

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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.

Toni Morrison

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Freedom is the recognition of contingency.

Richard Rorty

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We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.

William James