David O. McKay Quotes

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.

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

Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea, but everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now.

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think.

Just being out in the world gives me ideas.

Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you’ve never been. Once you’ve visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

Big data will never give you big ideas... Big data doesn't facilitate big leaps of the imagination. It will never conjure up a PC revolution or any kind of paradigm shift. And while it might tell you what to aim for, it can't tell you how to get there

We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.

Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.

Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation.

Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.

Progress is often just a good idea away.

It would be wonderful if ideas could be the new rock 'n roll

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

There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our st idity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it.

Creativity is any act, idea, or product that changes an existing domain, or that transforms an existing domain into a new one What counts is whether the novelty he or she produces is accepted for inclusion in the domain.

Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them. Every step of progress is a change involving heavy risks.

Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.

Dreams, though, are just one kind of inspiration - no more or less special than something in a newspaper article or from the world around you sparking inspiration.

Most of us have one big idea at some point in our lives. That Eureka! moment. It comes to us all in different ways, often by chance of serendipity.

When a new idea assaults the power of established authority, authority always screams out that morality has been affronted. It makes no difference if this idea is that the world is round or that women should vote or that the workers should control industry.

The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.

I didn't just get an idea. I got a great idea.