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Now my blog has a brand new identity. I will work on the look and feel in the coming months. For now it starts with some ideas on ideas.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Howard Aiken

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.Oscar Wilde

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.Swami Vivekananda

Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who'll work hard enough to bring them aboutAshleigh Brilliant

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.Howard Aiken

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. Andre Malraux

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.Napoleon Hill

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideasPaula Poundstone

"Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds." Albert Einstein

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged. Thomas Alva Edison

"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas."Linus Pauling

"If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value."Mark Twain

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.Nolan Bushnell

"I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught. "Georgia O'Keeffe
"Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy."Jim Hightower
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."John Cage

"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."John Steinbeck

"Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle."Ken Hakuta

"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it."P. B. Medawar

"I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it."Samuel Goldwyn
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come."Victor Hugo

"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea." Walter Bagehot
A lot of what some greats had to say about ideas. Keep watching this space. It is changing the world.

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