Subject: Intelligence » Ideas (Page 2)

If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

A good idea is one that hits the other fellow with a bolt of envy.

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

(1939 – ) comedian, actress, writer & producer

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

(1809 – 1865) 16th U.S. president

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

(1909 – 1966) Polish poet, writer & aphorist

Who’s cruel idea was it to put an “s” in the word “lisp”?

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

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

We all agree your theory is crazy… but is it crazy enough to be true?

(1885 – 1962) Danish physicist

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

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

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


Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when a man has only one idea.

Émile Chartier (1868 – 1951) French philosopher, journalist & pacifist

A poem is no place for an idea.

(1853 – 1937) journalist, writer & editor

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

(1924 – 2013) American businessman, author & columnist

It sounds good on paper.

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

(1950 – ) English broadcaster, journalist & author

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

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

When an error has been detected and corrected, it will be found to have been correct in the first place

Corollary: After the correction has been found in error, it will be impossible to fit the original quantity back into the equation.

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

(1940 – ) computer scientist