Ideas move fast when their time comes.
Ideas Quotes
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own.
I do not ‘get’ ideas; ideas get me.
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
Memes should be regarded as living structures, not just metaphorically but technically. When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme’s propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell. And this isn’t just […]
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually […]
