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.

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.

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

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.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

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

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

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

If you’ve spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

Actors know, with me they aren’t going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.

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.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

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

Labor gives birth to ideas.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

My proposal happens to be very mainstream.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

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

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

I’ve learned new footwork patterns that are very unusual. I’ve learned how to find a lower centre of gravity, and I’ve found more angles to throw shots.

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.

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.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

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.

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

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

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

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

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

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

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

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

In all seriousness, people think that it’s the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words – that’s how long a novel is.

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

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

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

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

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

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.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

The last people with any ideas are young people.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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