Subject: Intelligence » Ideas

Don't worry about people stealing an idea; if it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

(1900 – 1973) computer pioneer

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas.

(1959 – ) American comedian

He only had one idea and that was wrong.

(1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

(1917 –1986) American journalist

An original idea can never emerge from committee in the original.

The best way to inspire fresh thoughts is to seal the letter.


I’m not into this detail stuff; I’m more concepty.

(1932 – ) American businessman & U.S. Secretary of Defense

Some people are better imagined in one's bed than found there in the morning.

(1947 – ) author, humorist & satirist

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.

British clerk of the House of Commons

Every great idea has a disadvantage equal to or exceeding the greatness of the idea.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

(1940 – ) computer scientist

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

(1809 – 1865) 16th U.S. president

Ideas endure and prosper in inverse proportion to their soundness and validity.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect.

(1950 – ) English broadcaster, journalist & author

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

(1924 – 2013) American businessman, author & columnist

It sounds good on paper.

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

Education: Forcing abstract ideas into concrete heads.