388 quotes found
“Babbage had most of this system sketched out by 1837, but the first true computer to use this programmable architecture didnt appear for more than a hundred years.”
“There are two kinds of great power which can shake the earth: Mega earthquakes and big ideas!”
“What moves men of genius, or rather, what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is not enough.”
“Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.”
“Before it was a Bomb, the Bomb was an Idea. Superman, however, was a Faster, Stronger, Better Idea.”
“Information can be harmful when you're not ready for it. ['The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes']”
“What a revolution in her ideas!”
“Ideas can come from anywhere and at any time. The problem with making mental notes is that the ink fades very rapidly.”
“Like a necktie or a bouquet of flowers, an idea was best if one did not fuss with it too much”
“Minds with fixed ideas are like granite: They can never be penetrated with soft words and gentle persuasions.”
“Open the curtains of your mind, my friend; let the world know who you are! Do not hide your ideas; set them free, let them free! Open the curtains! Feel no fear! If there is truth in your ideas, yo...”
“My dear boy, your thinking has no structure, no foundation. You pick up your primary ideas from TV shows. You're like a fart in the bathtub. ['The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes']”
“On a visit to the space program, President Kennedy asked me about the satellite. I told him that it would be more important than sending a man into space. Why? he asked. Because, I said, this satel...”
“I could go on like this forever, but would I ever find a place that was meant for me? Like, for example, where? After lengthy considerations, the only place I could think of was the cockpit of a tw...”
“Ideas begin their life as small seeds, so light they may drift through the air like dust motes. If a human is fortunate enough to catch one, when the light is right, it can be planted, just like a ...”
“To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that it has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.”
“Very often, gleams of light come in a few minutes' sleeplessness, in a secondperhaps; you must fix them. To entrust them to the relaxed brain is like writing on water; there is every chance that on...”
“Do not covet your ideas. Give away everything you know and more will come back to you.”
“Dear colleague / Dear friend,I am pleased to announce that the first issue of Save Ideas Newsletter has been published. It is attached to this e-mail.Please share this information and sign up at sa...”
“In hermetic isolation, all kinds of bizarre and toxic ideas can fester. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and exposing a bad idea to the critical glare of other minds provides at least a chance th...”
