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Monday 4th of May 2026

Cocks of the walk say You can never think too big © 2015 Kwiple.com
Economic growth Ideas were the steam power of the Great Enrichment. Dierdre Nansen McCloskey, Bettering Humanomics  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Globalization Ideas, knowledge, science, hospitality, travel – these are the things which should of their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conviently possible, and, above all, let finance be primarily national. John Maynard Keynes, “National Self-Sufficiency” © 2019 Kwiple.com
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 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
Math We constructed an infinite sequence of increasingly better approximations, and there was enough of a pattern in those approximations that we could tell where they were heading. In other words, an infinite sequence of lies with a pattern  can tell us the truth. It is arguable that this is the single greatest idea the human race has ever had. Paul Lockhart, in Meassurement, commenting on the method of exhaustion, which lets us make exact measurements using an infinite series of approximations  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Money in politics I don’t waste my time on stories that involve money and politics because what I care about is ideas. Leonard Leo, recipient of a $1.6 billion donation from Chicago billionaire Barre Seid to spend on getting conservatives who are committed to returning America to the eighteenth century (when things were as they should be) appointments as judges at all levels of the judiciary — federal, state, and local © 2023 Kwiple.com
Selfie I have a million ideas. The country can't afford them all. Hillary Clinton © 2015 Kwiple.com
 
Selfie I'm not into this detail stuff. I'm more concepty. Donald Rumsfeld © 2015 Kwiple.com