Ideas Quotes

If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win.

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

We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of whatever kind. We must not only give up our bondage to earth and everything and everybody on earth, but also to all ideas of heaven and happiness.

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.

We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

Creative minds have the ability to imagine or invent something new by combining, changing or reapplying existing ideas.

The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

I get my ideas from listening from within.

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.

The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.

Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.

Absorb ideas from every source.

To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.

My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.