Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Bray

It's like this: The time between having an idea and its public launch is measured in days not months, weeks not years.

Tim Berners-Lee

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

Tim Berners-Lee

That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.

Thomas Love Peacock

Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.

Thomas Frank

Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense.

Thomas Bangalter

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

Thom Mayne

Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way into your work.

Thom Mayne

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.

Thom Mayne

The multiplicity of ideas is what Im interested in.

Thom Mayne

So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.

Thomas Bernhard

Toda idea, al fin y al cabo, es una idea demencial.

Raymond Williams

It is not primarily ideas that have a history; it is societies. And then what often seem opposed ideas can in the end be seen as parts of a single social process.

Raymond Williams

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.

Raymond Loewy

It all must start with an inspired, spontaneous idea.

Ville Valo

I've got loads of ideas. I just have no idea what to do with those ideas

Vince Cable

Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.

Victoria Wood

I have stayed true to that first idea that people can have a day in their lives that is very important and if they can reconnect with that day, reconnect with the people they were then, they can suddenly revive their emotions.

Victoria Woodhull

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputations on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.

Viggo Mortensen

It doesn't matter how bad things are, something good could happen always. And it doesn't matter how many excuses you have for behaving in an unkind manner towards others. There's never any excuse for not being kind and it's always better to be kind even if it seems pointless and that in fact is the highest wisdom - being kind. It sounds like a very noble, ethereal, simplistic idea but it's true.

Viggo Mortensen

At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.

Victoria Moran

The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.

Victor Hugo

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

Victor Hugo

A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.

Victor Hugo

Every idea must have a visible enfolding.

Victor Hugo

A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.

Victor Hugo

When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.

Victor Hugo

One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.

Vicente Fox

Every idea has its time.

Vernor Vinge

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

Veronica Roth

Tris: Wait. So you have no idea what my aptitude is? Tori: Yes and No. My conclusion is that you display equal aptitude for Abnegation, Dauntless and Erudite. People who get this kind of result are..are called...Divergent.

Stephen Covey

What one great idea resonates deeper in the soul than any other...that we are free to choose. Next to life itself, the power to choose is your greatest gift.

Stephen Covey

Don't cheat people of their growth. Empower them to solve problems and generate ideas. Watch them grow!

Stephane Mallarme

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.