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Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.

The press is hostile to the idea of liberty. Most people in the press are for big government. Most people think that the solution to anything, whether it's health care problems, education, whatever it is - it's got to be more government.

This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.

All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.

'Confusion is the last stop on the way to clarity,' he told me. 'The part of your mind that thinks it knows it all is butting up against a bigger idea. It's only a matter of time until the smaller thought gives way to the greater. Don't fight it. Just try to enjoy the ride.'

From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things.

The whole notion of passwords is based on an oxymoron. The idea is to have a random string that is easy to remember. Unfortunately, if it's easy to remember, it's something nonrandom like 'Susan.' And if it's random, like 'r7U2*Qnp,' then it's not easy to remember.

To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.

Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.

An idea is something that won't work unless you do.

But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology. Moreover, they must be men of action and not contemplation. I have the impression that no method of education can produce people with all the qualities required. I am haunted by the idea that this break in human civilization, caused by the discovery of the scientific method, may be irreparable.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.

You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy.

It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce.

Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..."

The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

There are a number of people without whom I could not have written this book, but I hope you don't hold that against them. They are all fine people, and they had no idea how it would turn out.