David Gelernter Quotes

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

I am always looking for options that yield something unexpected.

As usual, the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.

Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.

Your success will be affected by the quality and quantity of new ideas you suggest.

It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.

We need innovation. We need great ideas that can be simply and effectively produced all over the place.

The person with just one good idea is a thousand times better off than the person with no good ideas.

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

Being creative means first of all doing something unusual... On the other hand, however unusual it may be, the idea also has to be reasonable for people to take it seriously.

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.

Really good original ideas are very hard to come up with. Good ideas - easy. Really good, original ideas - it can take months.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

I absolutely adore the alchemy of a bit of an idea.

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

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

There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.

We like the idea that the things we do seem to come out of nowhere.

Coming up with a good idea, with an insight into the way the world works that is really new and that you really believe in, is a deeply satisfying experience.

The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented... They come from inventing new questions!

Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.

We always have more ideas than we can fund.