#ideas

On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#am #answers #apprehend #asked #been

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#cannot #content #fitting #fitting in #ideas

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#communion #effect #ideas #images #minds

It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor. ↗

— Edward E. Barnard

#clouds #continents #entirely #erroneous #formed

Ideas move rapidly when their time comes. ↗

— Carolyn Heilbrun

#ideas #move #rapidly #their #time

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#fortunes #ideas #points

When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas. ↗

— David Brooks

#character #cover #hold #how #ideas

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#books #come #ideas #me #through

Bandwagon and all that it is is such a huge passion of mine. We're already bouncing around ideas for season three, what we would call our golden ticket, in terms of a celebrity we would pair up with. We have a few in mind, and a few topics. ↗

— Emma Caulfield

#around #bandwagon #bouncing #call #celebrity

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#fail #ideas #just #save #situation