Stay as focused as possible and keep simplifying down your ideas till you have something small you can launch quickly and iterate on. Be ruthless in ….

The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular solutions involve general theory, and to do it with sty….

With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth….

[Antinatalism ] seems to oppose the idea of writing anything at all. To reproduce is to pass on genes. To write is to pass on memes. In that sense, i….

The idea that the West was economically successful because of slavery, it's just nonsense..

One of the things everybody seems to want to ask writers is, "Where do you get your ideas?" When people ask me this, my usual response is, "Ideas are….

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly..

A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea..

Liberals retain a totemic attachment to the Freudian idea that traumatic toilet training is destiny..

A significant idea of organization cannot be obtained in a world in which everything is necessary and nothing is contingent..

Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other..

Our present political world-view, current in Germany, is based in general on the idea that creative, culture-creating force must indeed be attributed….

There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a metaphor for ju….

Consequently, the value and importance of the monarchic idea cannot reside in the person of the monarch himself except if Heaven decides to lay the c….

People often refer to a creative ability as a 'gift', and, of course, it is, in that, if I had sat down and logically tried to work out who I was and….

Certain roles, I just won't invest in. I'll go in and audition, but I might not spend five hours trying to figure out what the character is really ab….

If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons..

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity..

The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant. . . . There are only men who have chara….

The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life with….

There's a possible qualification I can make here about a non-pantheist god that is in some way tenable, and that is the idea of a god that has in som….