This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don't have it today, a competitive marketplace - that's an idea that both sides embrace..

Bookshops are infested with ideas. Books are quivering, murmuring creatures..

Some people don't like competition, but competition is fine. It generates new ideas, keeps you alert..

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities..

The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more arguing..

[The Americans] believe in the idea that a child shouldn't be consigned to poverty just because of circumstances of their birth..

I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew that there was something inside me that wanted me ….

The idea of directing was something that I always had in the back of my mind, and writing as well. I began to write screenplays when I was in my 20's..

Many [business] people focus on what is static, black and white. Yet great algorithms can be rewritten. A business process can be defined better. A b….

I'm not in any way trying to make statements that are not also invaded by emotions and abstract ideas that I don't really understand myself. It's mor….

It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down t….

I was raised with the idea that you can feel sorry for yourself, but then, get over it, because it doesn't get you anywhere. There was always this aw….

I think Barack Obama had the right idea [on negotiations with enemies], and the bottom line is that of course there have to be conditions. But, of co….

There are no hard times for good ideas..

An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea..

Volatility is a symptom that people have no idea of the underlying value-that they have stopped playing the asset game. They're not buying because it….

Volatility is a symptom that people have no idea of the underlying value..

I'm afraid I'm just too intense to have soft ideas, you know, about what to read when you're trying to pass the time..

Ideas that change business models and that can make money are the most threatening, outside actual religion..

You can't even imagine how it felt to have a cassette that you could take with you with a microphone so you could put down an idea and not have to hu….

You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetr….