No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
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What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'
All ideas grow out of other ideas.
In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
A great idea is not enough.
I have this belief that if you have an idea, and you have to write it down to remember it, then it can't be a great idea.
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.
Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.
A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.