I don’t care that they stole my idea… I care that they don’t have any of their own.
Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.
To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper.
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas – complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse.
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
The smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.