Ideas Quotes - Page 148

Do you know what Bill Gates has to pull out of an old coat, to feel like I did with a $20 bill? First of all, the idea that Bill Gates has an old coat is preposterous. If he has an old coat, it's the coat Abe Lincoln was shot in and he wears it as a bathrobe - no underwear by the way. He lets his billionaire balls swing willy-nilly beneath the death cloak of the great emancipator. That's your 1%.

A mathematician ... has no material to work with but ideas, and so his patterns are likely to last longer, since ideas wear less with time than words.

That's sort of the idea that if we, in attempting to explain away that which is experienced, the experience itself is diminished.

I cant write about something I dont admire. It goes back to the old concept of the celebration: you celebrate the hero, an idea.

I like the idea of collaboration - it pushes you. It's a richer experience.

Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes

I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

I never perceived a contradiction in the political revolutionary field between the ideas I maintained and the idea of that symbol, that extraordinary figure who had been so familiar to me since I began to reason.

Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses.

Some years ago, someone had come up with the idea that the State should hold all Titles to vehicles, mailing a Certificate of Title to the 'owners'. This created a legal fiction that the State owned the vehicles. Drivers were thus driving a State owned vehicle, mandating drivers must have a license to drive a State vehicle, which was false. The State reaped many millions with its drivers license scam, and began issuing heavy fines for not having a State license.

I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable.

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.

It's not enough to be tolerant...now we're finally moving towards the idea of acceptance.

The most embarrassing one is that I had no idea - and please excuse me - that you guys call a condom a rubber. My version of a rubber is an eraser. I've done that - very loudly asked for a rubber and people have given me strange looks. That was embarrassing!

The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has a clear place in parenting, as anyone who has tried to potty-train a recalcitrant toddler with sticker rewards knows.

These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here

The range of circumstances in which it is possible to presuppose the presence of a combination is very limited. The presence of such circumstances is the reason for the genesis of the idea in the master's brain.

Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.

The communication of ideas requires a similitude of thought and language . . .

The interaction between math and physics is a two-way process, with each of the two subjects drawing from and inspiring the other. At different times, one of them may take the lead in developing a particular idea, only to yield to the other subject as focus shifts. But altogether, the two interact in a virtuous circle of mutual influence.

Most incredibly, because to me this is unbelievable, we have no idea who illegal migrants are, where they come from. I always say Trojan horse. Watch what's going to happen, folks. It's not going to be pretty.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

I like the idea of it as a trickster motif. You know like you're kind of just messing around with people's memories of songs.

In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified remains a stranger and is at best the object of pity. The world will allow itself to be subdued only by success. It is not ideas or opinions which decide, but deeds. Success alone justifies wrongs done With a frankness and off-handedness which no other earthly power could permit itself, history appeals in its own cause to the dictum that the end justifies the means The figure of the Crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard.

I always believe in earning love. I consider unconditional love to be one of the worst ideas developed