Revolutionary Concept Quotes

If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough

The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. He interprets history, understands its dynamic, predicts the future, but in addition to predicting it (which would satisfy his scientific obligation), he expresses a revolutionary concept: the world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.

One of the best ideas to ever come out of Washington.

Freedom is still the most radical idea of all.

The originator of a new concept...finds, as a rule, that it is much more difficult to find out why other people do not understand him, than it was to discover the new truth.

Dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel and the arch.

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.

For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.

Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.

An opinion which is ... to establish a principle never before recognized, should be expressed in plain and explicit terms.

Aladdin in his most intoxicated moments would never have dreamed of asking his [djinn] for [a polaroid] ... It's utterly new in concept and appearance, utilizing an utterly revolutionary flash system, an utterly revolutionary viewing system, utterly revolutionary electronics, and utterly revolutionary film structure.

Eliminator' was a big, experimental thing.

A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.

One of the gamebook series I created, 'Fabled Lands', is also the name of my company, and the reason we named the company after it is that it was pretty revolutionary for its time.

When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.