#idea

I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#close #good #good idea #i #i think

Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that. ↗

— Gelsey Kirkland

#almost #anything #become #effort #hard

I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#early #even #ever #friends #guess

We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#health #idea #ill #implies #sickness

It was relatively easy to write 'The Cave of Lost Souls', though, because it came to me one night in a dream. I remember waking up and having this idea for a complete story - from start to finish - in my head, so I jotted it down, then later began writing the thing. ↗

— Paul Kane

#began #came #cave #complete #down

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#happiness #ideal #reason

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#conference #died #ever #foolish #grand

I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you're constantly being shown this garbage and you can't get there. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#being #constantly #could #expectations #fictions

We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#avoid #brains #doing #i #ideas

I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#completely #forget #i #i do #ideas