Ideas QuotesLead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.  Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences. .. Ideas are more powerful than guns. Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes to-day. Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art. Every new idea has something of the pain and peril of childbirth about it; ideas are just as mortal and just as immortal as organised beings are. From any vocabulary of ideas we can build other ideas by formal combinations of signs. But not any set of ideas will be instructive. One must have the right ideas. The Web is the ultimate marketplace of ideas, governed by the laws of big numbers. There is the world of ideas and there is the world of practice; the French are often for suppressing the one and the English the other; but neither is to be suppressed. We're all the sons of God, or children of the Is, or ideas of the Mind, or however else you want to say it. I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round. I always look for people whose ideas coincide with mine, and then I'm ready to give them a chance to make a name for themselves. I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and ta-da! the World Wide Web. In the end, it is ideas for which people kill each other. |
