Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dustin Moskovitz

There are a lot of people building small ideas now. There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.

Dustin Moskovitz

The only reason you should be an entrepreneur is because that's the only way the idea will come into the world.

Douglas Engelbart

These days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist.

Douglas Horton

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Douglas Hofstadter

This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.

Douglas Coupland

I have always liked the idea of Superman because I have always liked the idea that there is one person in the world who doesn’t do bad things. And that there is one person in the world who is able to fly.

Douglas Coupland

Trevor realized that the odd thing about English is that no matter how much you screw sequences word up up, you understood, still, like Yoda, will be. Other languages don't work that way. French? Dieu! Misplace a single le or la and an idea vaporizes into a sonic puff. English is flexible: you can jam it into a Cuisinart for an hour, remove it, and meaning will still emerge.

Douglas Coupland

I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.

Donald Trump

The people have an incentive to spend wisely. So the health care savings accounts are such a good thing. It's such a good idea. And it's time for it.

Dan Colen

I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.

Dan Brown

I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.

Dan Brown

the strange ideas we derive today will one day be our celebrated truths

Dan Brown

I've learned never to close my mind to an idea simply because it seems miraculous.

David Frum

I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words. And the big shock to me has been that although the president said the words, he just did not absorb the ideas. And that is the root of, maybe, everything.

David Frum

What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.

David Fincher

I like the idea of R-rated franchises.

David Fincher

My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.

David Foster Wallace

My whole life I've been a fraud. I'm not exaggerating. Pretty much all I've ever done all the time is try to create a certain impression of me in other people. Mostly to be liked or admired. It's a little more complicated than that, maybe. But when you come right down to it it's to be liked, loved. Admired, approved of, applauded, whatever. You get the idea.

David Foster Wallace

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story.

David Chipperfield

I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.

David Chipperfield

Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant.

David Cronenberg

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Antin

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

Daryl Hannah

So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.

Daryl Hannah

I love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to support farmers, especially the family farms.

Dave Brubeck

And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into.

David Simon

Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution.

David Platt

Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we could give more?

David Lynch

You get all the puzzle parts together enough to say the puzzle is complete. It's a script. In the process of realizing that, new ideas can come, one way or another. Through a happy accident, they just come to you.

David Lynch

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

David Lynch

Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of lyrics. I go through the box of lyrics I have and see if something fits.

David Lynch

The ideas dictate everything.

David Lynch

I didn't know anything about film when I first started - I was a painter - but I [always] felt that sound was just as important as the picture. The sound, picture, and ideas have to marry. If an idea carries with it a mood, sound is critical to making that mood.