Vannevar Bush Quotes

Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready-made with a mesh of associative trails running through them.

Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified.

The goals for me have changed somewhat. There's a bit of seduction to the idea of being on network, but it got to the point where that wasn't important. What's important is doing something worthwhile. Which is why I've always avoided being on a sitcom. Yeah, it's high-profile and it's on a network, but you know what? You could be on Suddenly Stewart.

Having one perfect thing was less important than having a range of ideas, realizing they were all taking you in a certain direction.

People experience all kinds of prejudice because of all different parts of themselves. And that doesn't make one part more important than the other. We live in a society that does not openly accept every kind of human being. And so the result is when you are yourself and someone who's marginalized, it becomes a revolutionary act - just being comfortable in your own body and being comfortable speaking, sharing your ideas. It's really amazing and also, like, kind of sad.

I understand why we do that now. It’s a help, not a threat. It’s something to remind you how important words are. Ideas are important. Principles are important. Words are important. Your word is the most important of all. Your word is who you are.

It's usually important to me to get my idea out first because a lot of times my ideas will seem weird to musicians.

Hypertext makes a virtue out of lack of organization, allowing ideas and thoughts to be juxtaposed at will. [...] The advent of hypertext is apt to make writing much more difficult, not easier. Good writing, that is.

I think it's really important that we get rid of the idea that protest will create change.

Someday, you need to build a business that's difficult to replicate. This is an important part of a good idea.

The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words do have a magical effect - but not in the way that magicians supposed, and not on the objects they were trying to influence. Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

You have no idea how unimportant is all that the teacher says or does not say on the surface, and how important what he himself is as teacher.

I think that one-liners are very important and sometimes you don't even know when you're making the movie that it's going to be a great line. I remember when we did 'The Terminator' and I came to the line "I'll be back" I had no idea that it was going to be an important line.

I came to the idea of how fine it would be to think of an encyclopedia of an actual world, and then of an encyclopedia, a very rigorous one of course, of an imaginary world, where everything should be linked.

I think the most important thing really was that you could take very personal ideas and present them to an audience in entertaining ways.

In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work

For an actor, it's very important to get a clear idea of what a director wants, and their intention for what they want to get out of a scene and how they want to shoot it. Having that knowledge is really valuable, for an actor. It means you can deliver more.

In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.

It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important.

Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden.

I like the idea of challenging Hollywood on its own turf. It's important to do that.

Forming of a web of information nodes rather than a hierarchical tree or an ordered list is the basic concept behind HyperText.

Finding your entrepreneurial spirit and making it strong is more important than the idea or business you are developing.

Journalism has been very important for me - for a long time I made my living as a journalist, and it also serves as a source of ideas. Many of the things I have written I would not have written without the experience of being a journalist.

Knowing "why" (an idea) is more important than learning "what" (the fact).