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Friday 19th of April 2024

Ideas The bottom line: Big ideas –the ones that truly drive economic growth or a change in the standard of living– are harder than ever to find because they're more costly than ever before. Fortune, December 15, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Ideas Certain ideas, when voiced by certain people, are not merely debatable or incorrect: they are inadmissible. The ideas themselves might seem healthy. They might even be orthodix in other hands. Nevertheless, when voiced by the individuals in question, they become unacceptable. Thomas Frank, Rendezvous with Oblivion © 2018 Kwiple.com
Ideas The enemy of conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society  © 2019 Kwiple.com
Ideas Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. John Kenneth Galbraith © 2019 Kwiple.com
Ideas I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room. Kenneth Clark, Civilisation © 2022 Kwiple.com
Ideas I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room. Kenneth Clark, Civilisation © 2022 Kwiple.com
Ideas Ideas are the dark matter of history. Dierdre Nansen McCloskey, Bettering Humanomics  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Ideas [J]ust to sustain constant growth in GDP per person, the U.S. must double the amount of research effort searching for new ideas every 13 years to offset the increased difficulty of fnding new ideas. “Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?,” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 23782, November 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Ideas There was once a man called Rousseau who wrote a book containing nothing but ideas. The second edition was bound in the skins of those who had laughed at the first. Thomas Carlyle, referring to the impact Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract had on the French Revolution © 2018 Kwiple.com
Ideas There's a story where Einstein was talking to a guy. The guy pulled a notebook out and scribbled something down.  Einstein says, “What's that?” The guy says,  “A notebook. Whenever I have a good idea, I write it down.” Einstein says, “I've never had any need for a notebook; I've only had three good ideas.” J. Richard Gott,  quoted in Scientific American, September 1, 2015 © 2024 Kwiple.com
 
Ideas Trump told the lawmakers they could talk about the solar-paneled wall as long as they said it was his idea. Axios, June 6, 2017, reporting on Trump's White House meeting with Republican Congressional leaders, during which he described his vision of the Mexican border wall as being 40 to 50 feet high and covered in solar panels so they'd be "beautiful structures" [A solar-panel-covered wall was among the designs proposed when the U.S. requested designs for the wall] © 2017 Kwiple.com