Niels Bohr Quotes

Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.

It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.

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

Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.

Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work.

Perhaps the way to meet tomorrow's challenges is not to use yesterday's solutions, but to dare to think the previously unthinkable, to speak the previously unspeakable, and to try that which was previously out of the question.

When the purse strings tighten up at museums, the institutions usually cut back and cancel shows. That's exactly the wrong reaction. In fact, now is a good time for them to loosen up - a chance to breathe and experiment a little - and go for the juicy solution lurking in their own basements.

I've got a lot of crazy plans.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.

I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.

I've always enjoyed doing challenging things and also challenging common wisdom.

I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.

It's important to have people who will say to you that you're really off the beaten track.

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

I don't consider myself to be that radical a thinker.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't something be done?' If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

What I often do is just think of a completely obtuse thing to do, almost the wrong thing to do. That often works because you start a different approach, something no one has tried.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

It is so important for designers not to run scared, and not to be too worried about what's safe and what's commercial.

I don't think we ought to base our policy on what the conventional wisdom is.... The conventional wisdom usually is wrong.

The most important voices in American politics often belong to the outsiders, whose who … might stand as a landscape painter from a distance to cast fresh lights

Part of the beauty of Silicon Valley is that people generally encourage you to think crazy. It's the hypothesis that there's nothing sacred that can't be changed.

I think there is something to be said for what you can do when you don't know what you aren't supposed to be able to do.

The world of entertainment is, like the world of fashion, becoming increasingly populated by those who don't want to do things the same old boring way.