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"I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going come what may. But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought."

Ideas Goal Woe Is Me
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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
Ideas

"Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified, hardwired."

Ideas Imagination Cyberspace
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Tim Brown Designer
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"We can learn that reward comes in creation and re-creation, no just in the consumption of the world around us. Active participation in the process of creation is our right and our privilege. We can learn to measure the success of our ideas not by our bank accounts by their impact on the world."

Ideas Creativity Impact
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Tim Berners-Lee Computer Scientist
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"I don't believe in the sort of "Eureka!" moment idea. I think it's a myth. I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time."

Thinking Believe Ideas
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Simone Weil Philosopher, Activist
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"To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity."

Ideas Lying Evil
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Slavoj Žižek Philosopher, Cultural Critic
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"In Fascism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed. Nobody had the idea of arresting Jews and torturing them to confess the Jewish plot. Because in Fascism, you are guilty for your whole being."

Ideas Plot Guilty
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Stefan Zweig Writer
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"All my life I have been passionately interested in monomaniacs of any kind, people carried away by a single idea. The more one limits oneself, the closer one is to the infinite; these people, as unworldly as they seem, burrow like termites into their own particular material to construct, in miniature, a strange and utterly individual image of the world."

People World Ideas
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Raymond Williams Cultural Critic, Writer
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"What is often being argued, it seems to me, in the idea of nature is the idea of man; and this not only generally, or in ultimate ways, but the idea of man in society, indeed the ideas of kinds of societies."

Men Way Ideas
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Author, Statistician
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"The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you."

Thinking Trying Ideas
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Malcolm Gladwell Journalist, Author
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"We tend to credit those who create an idea, not those who perfect it, forgetting that it is often only in the perfection of an idea that true progress occurs. Putting sixty-four transistors on a chip allowed people to dream of the future. Putting four million transistors on a chip actually gave them the future."

People Ideas Dream
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Larry Ellison Businessman
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"I can't think of anything that isn't cloud computing with all of these announcements. The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it?"

Ideas Talking Idiot
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Fidel Castro Politician, Revolutionary
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"The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet."

Ideas Growth Environmental
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Neil Young Musician, Singer-Songwriter
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"I don't force it. If you don't have an idea and you don't hear anything going over and over in your head, don't sit down and try to write a song. You know, go mow the lawn...My songs speak for themselves."

Writing Ideas Song
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Jacques Derrida Philosopher, Linguist
Ideas

"As soon as we cease to believe in such an engineer and in a discourse which breaks with the received historical discourse, and as soon as we admit that every finite discourse is bound by a certain bricolage and that the engineer and the scientist are also species of bricoleurs , then the very idea of bricolage is menaced and the difference in which it took on its meaning breaks down."

Believe Ideas Differences
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