Ramez Naam Quotes

I think most of the best new work is intended to have much more impact at once.

If you're in the idea business, it doesn't matter where you're from. It matters if we care about the change you're making.

Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.

I know when somebody's heard my music. I can hear it in their music.

I can understand when people copy people of the past and make the future their own.

Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant.

Any creator owes a debt to past creation.

Not only can you not plan the impact you're going to have, you often won't recognize it even while you're having it.

What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

The most original minds borrowed from one another.

Your legacy makes a difference.

I get influence from everybody and everything.

I really did start a whole way of thinking about musical theater.

When I leave this world, I don't want to leave just having a well-known name but having made a difference.

I've learned that if you don't have anyone opposing your work, if you don't have anyone thinking, 'Man, that should be me. I could do that. I should have thought of that, or they must have teams of people doing it for them,' your work simply isn't reaching enough people to be relevant.

You don't create legends out of other legends.

To me, a life that doesn't change things and touch people's lives is pretty meaningless.