Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) 

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) 

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Josh Billings 

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
George-Louis De Buffon 

He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) 

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) 

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
John Cage 

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson 

If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
George S. Patton, General (1885-1945) 

If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
Hal Abelson