Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.
You start with an idea but then so many things can happen.
When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.
The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.
It is much better to have just one idea, and if the idea is clear, then you can fight for it. That is how you can get things done.
If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.
The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different.
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.