Nikola Tesla Quotes

All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.

The secret of innovation is to see what all see but think what none think

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

Be careful of hubris about ideas—especially your own. Remember always, that there is one commonality between all the good ideas that were ever created and all the bad ideas: The people you created them thought that they were good ideas.

That’s the key to new and good ideas; they come from having a very broad and multidisciplinary range of interests.

An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader's premier trait.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.

You must find the ideas that have some promise in them... It is not enough to just have ideas.

If you don't have an idea, all you have is style.

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

You have to have a lot of ideas. First, if you want to make discoveries, it's a good thing to have good ideas. And second, you have to have a sort of sixth sense-the result of judgment and experience-which ideas are worth following up. I seem to have the first thing, a lot of ideas, and I also seem to have good judgment as to which are the bad ideas that I should just ignore, and the good ones, that I'd better follow up.

Young people don't even consider that it's a good idea to be out on the fringe, which is where good ideas come from.

How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?

At the very core of RIM is the innovation. We always think ahead. We always think forward. We sometimes think the unthinkable. And that is fantastic.

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.

The stupidest person in the room might have the best idea.

If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you.

I'd just like to see thinking come back in style. I haven't heard a new idea in eight years. Let's get ordinary people arguing and talking again. I want to trigger new circuits in their nervous systems. That's the philosopher's job and I am the most important philosopher at this time.

Genius has no taste for weaving sand.

Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.

I pay attention to what's going on around me. I'm always looking for new energy, new talent, new voices. When you do that I think it's easier to come up with fresh ideas. It's not that my career has been based on surprising people, but it's been about challenging myself - to constantly do new things that are going to broaden my own mind and in the process, hopefully, connect with other people.

We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.