My proposal happens to be very mainstream.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don’t say, ‚You don’t know how to use the English language,‘ or ‚How could you make that argument?‘ It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around – the music and the ideas.

It is always good to know which ideas cannot be checked directly, but it is not necessary to remove them all. It is not true that we can pursue science completely by using only those concepts which are directly subject to experiment.

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‚freedom‘ means than I see much evidence of in America.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

Soon, I’ll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

I’ve tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I’ll try to tailor-make it.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.

I’m mainstream.

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

And one more thing.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Writing means sharing. It’s part of the human condition to want to share things – thoughts, ideas, opinions.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

The great moments of rock ‚n‘ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.

For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.

I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I’m conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

The mainstream is always under attack.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

I don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.