G. H. Hardy Quotes

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

Only dead fish go with the flow.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.

Never judge something by whether it is popular or not. You don't have to follow trends. No one thought William Wilberforce was right at first.

You can't expect to be better than everybody else if you're doing the same thing as everybody else.

In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.

I like to be against the odds.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

I'm against fashionable thinking.

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,' and there's some validity in it. But honestly, even when I'm inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit.

I am against the whole cliche of the moment.

Wherever I see people doing something the way it's always been done, the way it's 'supposed' to be done, following the same old trends, well, that's just a big red flag to me to go look somewhere else.

Conforming is not cool.

You want to stand out and be unique and do something different. I always try to zig when they zag - I guess it's a football term, but it applies to a lot of different areas of life.

You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

I don't like the idea of fitting into a mould so as to conform. What I like is the danger, the difference - being unpredictable.

I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations.

If I am thinking the same as everyone why bother pushing to get it published?