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Top 30 Kevin Ashton Quotes (2025 Update)

Kevin Ashton Quote: “The best artists, scientists, engineers, inventors, entrepreneurs, and other creators are the ones who keep taking steps by finding new problems, new solutions, and then new problems again.”

1. “The best artists, scientists, engineers, inventors, entrepreneurs, and other creators are the ones who keep taking steps by finding new problems, new solutions, and then new problems again.”

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Kevin Ashton Quote: “Addiction destroys, passion creates, and that is the only difference between them.”

2. “Addiction destroys, passion creates, and that is the only difference between them.”

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Kevin Ashton Quote: “The art of new, and perhaps the art of happiness, is not absolute victory for either new or old but balance between them. Birds do not defy gravity or let it bind them to the ground. They use it to fly.”

3. “The art of new, and perhaps the art of happiness, is not absolute victory for either new or old but balance between them. Birds do not defy gravity or let it bind them to the ground. They use it to fly.”

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Kevin Ashton Quote: “Confidence is belief in yourself. Certainty is belief in your beliefs. Confidence is a bridge. Certainty is a barricade.”

4. “Confidence is belief in yourself. Certainty is belief in your beliefs. Confidence is a bridge. Certainty is a barricade.”

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Kevin Ashton Quote: “Beginning is hard, but continuing is harder. Those who seek a glamorous life should not pursue art, science, innovation, invention, or anything else that needs new. Creation is a long journey where most turns are wrong and most ends are dead.”

5. “Beginning is hard, but continuing is harder. Those who seek a glamorous life should not pursue art, science, innovation, invention, or anything else that needs new. Creation is a long journey where most turns are wrong and most ends are dead.”

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Kevin Ashton Quote: “When Robin Warren accepted his Nobel Prize, he quoted Sherlock Holmes: “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” It was an “obvious fact” that bacteria do not live in the stomach, just as it was an “obvious fact” that emergency room doctors remember to remove guidewires and an “obvious fact” that there are no gorillas in pictures of lungs.”

6. “When Robin Warren accepted his Nobel Prize, he quoted Sherlock Holmes: “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” It was an “obvious fact” that bacteria do not live in the stomach, just as it was an “obvious fact” that emergency room doctors remember to remove guidewires and an “obvious fact” that there are no gorillas in pictures of lungs.”

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Kevin Ashton Quote: “Minds do not leap. Observation, evaluation, and iteration, not sudden shifts of perception, solve problems and lead us to creation.”

7. “Minds do not leap. Observation, evaluation, and iteration, not sudden shifts of perception, solve problems and lead us to creation.”

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Kevin Ashton Quote: “The creativity myth implies that few people can be creative, that any successful creator will experience dramatic flashes of insight, and that creating is more like magic than work. A rare few have what it takes, and for them it comes easy. Anybody else’s creative efforts are doomed.”

8. “The creativity myth implies that few people can be creative, that any successful creator will experience dramatic flashes of insight, and that creating is more like magic than work. A rare few have what it takes, and for them it comes easy. Anybody else’s creative efforts are doomed.”

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Kevin Ashton Quote: “Passion is the most extreme state of choice without reward. Or, rather, it is its own reward, an energy that is indifferent to outcomes, even when they include missed sleep, becoming poor, losing your friends, bleeding and bruising, even death.”

9. “Passion is the most extreme state of choice without reward. Or, rather, it is its own reward, an energy that is indifferent to outcomes, even when they include missed sleep, becoming poor, losing your friends, bleeding and bruising, even death.”

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Kevin Ashton Quote: “When you bring something truly new to the world, brace. Having an impact is not usually a pleasant experience. Sometimes the hardest part of creating is not having an idea but saving an idea, ideally while also saving yourself.”

10. “When you bring something truly new to the world, brace. Having an impact is not usually a pleasant experience. Sometimes the hardest part of creating is not having an idea but saving an idea, ideally while also saving yourself.”

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Kevin Ashton Quote: “Waldo Emerson wrote in his journal, “If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.”

11. “Waldo Emerson wrote in his journal, “If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.”

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Kevin Ashton Quote: “Creators spend almost all their time creating, persevering despite doubt, failure, ridicule, and rejection until they succeed in making something new and useful. There are no tricks, shortcuts, or get-creative-quick schemes. The process is ordinary, even if the outcome is not. Creating is not magic but work.”

12. “Creators spend almost all their time creating, persevering despite doubt, failure, ridicule, and rejection until they succeed in making something new and useful. There are no tricks, shortcuts, or get-creative-quick schemes. The process is ordinary, even if the outcome is not. Creating is not magic but work.”

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Kevin Ashton Quote: “Almost nothing we create will be good the first time. It will seldom be bad. It will probably be a dull shade of average. The main virtue of a first sketch is that it breaks the blank page. It is a spark of life in the swamp, beautiful if only because it is a beginning.”

13. “Almost nothing we create will be good the first time. It will seldom be bad. It will probably be a dull shade of average. The main virtue of a first sketch is that it breaks the blank page. It is a spark of life in the swamp, beautiful if only because it is a beginning.”

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Kevin Ashton Quote: “In 1926, Alfred North Whitehead made a noun from a verb and gave the myth its name: creativity.”

14. “In 1926, Alfred North Whitehead made a noun from a verb and gave the myth its name: creativity.”

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Kevin Ashton Quote: “Was this a flash of inspiration? No. In Einstein’s own words: “I was led to it by steps.” All stories of aha! moments – and there are surprisingly few – are like these: anecdotal, often apocryphal, and unable to survive scrutiny.”

15. “Was this a flash of inspiration? No. In Einstein’s own words: “I was led to it by steps.” All stories of aha! moments – and there are surprisingly few – are like these: anecdotal, often apocryphal, and unable to survive scrutiny.”

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Kevin Ashton Quote: “But there is a problem. Mozart did not write this letter. It is a forgery. This was first shown in 1856 by Mozart’s biographer Otto Jahn and has been confirmed by other scholars since. Mozart’s real letters – to his father, to his sister, and to others – reveal his true creative process. He was exceptionally talented, but he did not write by magic.”

16. “But there is a problem. Mozart did not write this letter. It is a forgery. This was first shown in 1856 by Mozart’s biographer Otto Jahn and has been confirmed by other scholars since. Mozart’s real letters – to his father, to his sister, and to others – reveal his true creative process. He was exceptionally talented, but he did not write by magic.”

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Kevin Ashton Quote: “Intellectually secure people do not need to show anyone how smart they are. They are empirical and seek truth. Intellectually insecure people need to show everyone how smart they are. They are egotistical and seek triumph.”

17. “Intellectually secure people do not need to show anyone how smart they are. They are empirical and seek truth. Intellectually insecure people need to show everyone how smart they are. They are egotistical and seek triumph.”

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Kevin Ashton Quote: “The greatest test of your expertise is how explicitly you understand your assumptions.”

18. “The greatest test of your expertise is how explicitly you understand your assumptions.”

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Kevin Ashton Quote: “Having ideas is not the same thing as being creative. Creation is execution, not inspiration. Many people have ideas; few take the steps to make the thing they imagine.”

19. “Having ideas is not the same thing as being creative. Creation is execution, not inspiration. Many people have ideas; few take the steps to make the thing they imagine.”

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Kevin Ashton Quote: “If your idea succeeds, everybody says you’re persistent. If it doesn’t succeed, you’re stubborn.”

20. “If your idea succeeds, everybody says you’re persistent. If it doesn’t succeed, you’re stubborn.”

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Kevin Ashton Quote: “Time is the raw material of creation. Wipe away the magic and myth of creating and all that remains is work:.”

21. “Time is the raw material of creation. Wipe away the magic and myth of creating and all that remains is work:.”

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Kevin Ashton Quote: “Creating is to humans as flying is to birds. It is our nature, our spirit.”

22. “Creating is to humans as flying is to birds. It is our nature, our spirit.”

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Kevin Ashton Quote: “Because people who are more creative also tend to be more playful, unconventional, and unpredictable, and all of this makes them harder to control. No matter how much we say we value creation, deep down, most of us value control more. And so we fear change and favor familiarity. Rejecting is a reflex.”

23. “Because people who are more creative also tend to be more playful, unconventional, and unpredictable, and all of this makes them harder to control. No matter how much we say we value creation, deep down, most of us value control more. And so we fear change and favor familiarity. Rejecting is a reflex.”

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Kevin Ashton Quote: “Creating is not extraordinary, even if its results sometimes are. Creation is human. It is all of us. It is everybody.”

24. “Creating is not extraordinary, even if its results sometimes are. Creation is human. It is all of us. It is everybody.”

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Kevin Ashton Quote: “Listen, and you hear creation. It is in the sound of passing sirens; distant music; church bells; cell phones; lawn mowers and snow blowers; basketballs and bicycles; waves on breakers; hammers and saws; the creak and crackle of melting ice cubes; even the bark of a dog, a wolf changed by millennia of selective breeding by humans; or the purr of a cat, the descendant of one of just five African wildcats that humans have been selectively breeding for ten thousand years.”

25. “Listen, and you hear creation. It is in the sound of passing sirens; distant music; church bells; cell phones; lawn mowers and snow blowers; basketballs and bicycles; waves on breakers; hammers and saws; the creak and crackle of melting ice cubes; even the bark of a dog, a wolf changed by millennia of selective breeding by humans; or the purr of a cat, the descendant of one of just five African wildcats that humans have been selectively breeding for ten thousand years.”

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Kevin Ashton Quote: “Creating is more monotony than adventure.”

26. “Creating is more monotony than adventure.”

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Kevin Ashton Quote: “Rejection is not persecution. Drain it of its poison and what remains may be useful.”

27. “Rejection is not persecution. Drain it of its poison and what remains may be useful.”

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Kevin Ashton Quote: “Creation demands belief beyond reason.”

28. “Creation demands belief beyond reason.”

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Kevin Ashton Quote: “The bias against new is a prejudice a bit like sexism and racism: we know it is socially unacceptable to “dislike” creation, we sincerely believe we “like” creation, but when presented with a specific creative idea, we are more likely to reject it than we realize.”

29. “The bias against new is a prejudice a bit like sexism and racism: we know it is socially unacceptable to “dislike” creation, we sincerely believe we “like” creation, but when presented with a specific creative idea, we are more likely to reject it than we realize.”

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Kevin Ashton Quote: “Ritual is optional, but consistency is not. Creating requires regular hours of solitude. Time is your main ingredient, so use the highest-quality time to create.”

30. “Ritual is optional, but consistency is not. Creating requires regular hours of solitude. Time is your main ingredient, so use the highest-quality time to create.”

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Kevin Ashton Quote: “Unfulfilled passion creates a cavity between our present and our potential – a void that can drip with destruction and despair.”

31. “Unfulfilled passion creates a cavity between our present and our potential – a void that can drip with destruction and despair.”

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Kevin Ashton Quote: “The most important thing creators do is work. The most important thing they don’t do is quit.”

32. “The most important thing creators do is work. The most important thing they don’t do is quit.”

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