“Routine kills creative thought.”

“[I]nterest, say in mathematics, has usually been killed by routine teaching, exactly as the literary interest… has been killed…”

“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”

“And to those who believe that adventures are i say try routine: it kills you far more quickly.”

“Prison kills your spirit, straight up. It kills your spirit. There is no creativity, there's none of that.”

“Innovative roles represent patterned organizational deviance… The intra-role conflicts of the innovator stem from his engagement and commitment to the creative, non-routine aspects of his job and his corresponding disinterest and disdain for the routine or uncreative demands placed upon him.”

“Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.”

“Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.”

“Too many rules and too much predictability absolutely kill creativity.”

“The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa.”