idea propagation Quotes

Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on the memory of the crowd.

The Future belongs to those who can spread ideas.

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.

People who can spread ideas regardless of what those ideas are, win.

Ideas that spread win.

Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.

And it doesn't matter to me whether you're running a coffee shop or you're an intellectual or you're in business or flying hot air balloons. People who can spread ideas, regardless of what those ideas are, win. But consumers, they got way more choices than they used to and way less time.

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes.

Take the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and concentrate them (through study turn them into concentrated and systematic ideas), then go to the masses and propagate and explain these ideas until the masses embrace them as their own

A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions... think.

Real change comes from finding and embracing and connecting and amplifying those that are inclined to like you and believe in you. Ideas spread from person to person, not so much from you to them. So find your biggest fans and give them a story to tell.

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

Often an idea has impact far larger than the person who originated it.

I've always been about, how do I get my ideas out to the most people?

For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters.

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.

Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups.

If the knowledge is spread, it cannot be stamped out.

If we say that religion is a virus, then why isn't science a virus?

There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.

You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.

All the movements or crusades depend for their inception and early momentum on the personality of some individual man or woman. Someone must care tremendously and give unstintingly of themselves before an idea takes sufficient root in a number of people's minds to go forward without some tangible personality to give it interest.