The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. ….

You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality.

I always have something going on..

Some of the routines come back very easily. We do it off the top of our heads..

To model correctly one tranche of one CDO took about three hours on one of the fastest computers in the United States. There is no chance that pretty….

It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are in a minority of one..

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world..

It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion..

Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple.

Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solut….

New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas..

The lumbermen...regarded forest devastation as normal and second growth as a delusion of fools....And as for sustained yield, no such idea had ever e….

A vision is not a vision unless it says yes to some ideas and no to others, inspires people and is a reason to get out of bed in the morning and come….

The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit..

As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content of speech….

We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them..

A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights..

I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be suspicious of the mere music of words..

The job of the leader is to get the big ideas right..

ANYONE who studies the history of ideas should notice how much more often people on the political left, more so than others, denigrate and demonize t….

And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves..