Quotes About Ideas

If Jefferson gave you his house at Monticello, you'd have his house and he wouldn't. But if he gave you an idea, you'd have the idea and he'd still have the idea. That weirdness is the source of our uncertainty about intellectual property today. For

Most new ideas and new inventions are disjointed ideas merged.

As far back as 1813, Thomas Jefferson understood that ideas were not really property, or if they were property they differed from real estate. He wrote, "He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me." If

Every idea that is made real (technology) enlarges the space we have to construct our lives.

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes.

First, when directing your people, use persuasion, not coercion.5 Instead of making pronouncements, make requests. Offer suggestions and ideas. Don't dictate and demand; instead, advocate and recommend.

Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to be able to greenwash their products and feel good.

From all accounts, it seems the faithful opposition is reduced to Gideon's 300. The day has arrived for Christians to engage the battle...From now on, true Christians will engage the battle of ideas in academy. The time for giving up ground is over. Now we must fight. We must engage the [B]iblical worldview vigorously in the world of great literature. The greatests wars ever fought in history are not those fought by sword or artillery. The greatest battles are engaged in the realm of ideas

And (HAMAS) instead offered alternative ideas on how to both confront Israel without surrendering and govern the Palestinians without corruption.

Your company also includes your mental and psychological company – the ideas you entertain, the ambitions you nurture, the sensitivities and sensibilities you develop and the books you read. All of these represent a form of company because they are your companions in solitude.

Beliefs are the masters of the world, and all masters are tyranical

Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues to give birth to ideas and ways of experiencing life that challenge the norm.

With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day.

At our meeting, I suggested to Steven and Lynda two guidelines for the science of Interstellar: 1. Nothing in the film will violate firmly established laws of physics, or our firmly established knowledge of the universe. 2. Speculations (often wild) about ill-understood physical laws and the universe will spring from real science, from ideas that at least some "respectable" scientists regard as possible.

As all these trends happen, the winners will be those who are able to participate fully in innovation-driven ecosystems by providing new ideas, business models, products and services, rather than those who can offer only low-skilled labour or ordinary capital.

Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Nathuram's reply was: 'Please, see to it that mercy is not imposed on me. I want to show that through me, Gandhiji's non-violence is being hanged.' Taken aback by this reply, Ambedkar, who had never thought highly of Gandhiji's eccentric ideas, actually praised Godse.

The etymology of the word "conscience" tells us that it is a special form of "knowledge" . . .The peculiarity of "conscience" is that it is a knowledge of, or certainty about, the emotional value of the ideas we have concerning the motives of our actions.

Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities, and ways out of blocked situations.

So far as we have any information about man, we know that he has always and everywhere been under the influence of dominating ideas. Any one who alleges that he is not can immediately be suspected of having exchanged a known form of belief for a variant which is less known both to himself and to others. Instead of theism he is a devotee of atheism, instead of Dionysus he favours the more modern Mithras, and instead of heaven he seeks paradise on earth.

Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept.

group of us felt that ideas were being fed to us, whereas we wished primarily to explore our own questions and doubts, and find out where they led.

They have come up with a bold idea: Our minds, too, are shaped by conflict between our parents' genes.

There are hierarchies of structures, and new concepts arise at each level.