Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing

I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

Ideas come from everything

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

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines will show us the way.