The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.
Ideas Quotes
I had a great idea this morning, but I didn’t like it.
There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are well-dressed fools.
Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion – the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right.
On two occasions I have been asked (by Members of Parliament), ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Everything you see and touch was once an invisible idea until someone chose to bring it into being. Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.
Where do you get your crazy ideas?” asked the gentleman twenty rows back, the first question in the second hour of the lecture. There was a mass low chuckle from the couple-thousand people in the Civic Auditorium… he was not the only one curious about that… For the moment I had walked to the footlights […]
A city (Paris) where great ideas perish, done to death by a witticism.
