Ideas Quotes

An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.

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

I've realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night's sleep.

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

Absorb ideas from every source.

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

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

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

I get my ideas from listening from within.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

An idea is something that won't work unless you do.

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.