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• I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

  Ken Thompson

  Writing, Thinking, Simple

  "Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson". Computer 32 (5), (pp. 58-64), May 1999.

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• A good idea if not acted upon produces terrible psychological pain. But a good idea acted upon brings enormous mental satisfaction. Got a good idea? Then do something about it. Use action to cure fear and gain confidence. Here's something to remember: Actions feed and strengthen confidence; inaction in all forms feeds fear. To fight fear, act. To increase fear--wait, put off, postpone.

  David J. Schwartz

  Pain, Fighting, Ideas

  David J Schwartz (2012). “The Magic Of Thinking Big”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• But obviously, we're looking for all good ideas to help deal with our long-term debt problem. This is something that is going to affect our economy. It affects our kids. And we need to deal with it.

  David Axelrod

  Kids, Ideas, Long

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• The brain is like a TV set; when it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound.

  Sam Ewing

  Ideas, Brain, Sound

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• The idea for any cartoon (my experience, anyway) is rarely spontaneous. Good ideas usually evolve out of pretty lame ones, and vice versa.

  Gary Larson

  Ideas, Cartoon, Vices

  Gary Larson (1989). “The PreHistory of the Far side: a 10th anniversary exhibit”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Where ideas are concerned, America can be counted on to do one of two things: Take a good idea and run it completely into the ground, or take a bad idea and run it completely into the ground.

  George Carlin

  Running, Ideas, Two

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• It's insulting when outsiders come in and tell a traumatized people what it will take for them to heal... People who have lived through a terrible conflict may be hungry and desperate, but they are not stupid. They often have very good ideas about how peace can evolve, and they need to be asked. That includes women. Most especially women.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Stupid, Ideas, People

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• The value of a good idea is in using it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Ideas, Values

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• It's a good idea to pay attention to the world and try to understand how it works rather than how you would like it to work.

  Matthew Crawford

  Ideas, Trying, Attention

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• The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.

  Jack Kemp

  Ideas, Way, Bad Ideas

  "The Talk Show Party" by Pierre Atlas, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 2, 2009.

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• Hell is not a subject to be avoided; it is a place to be avoided. Thinking about Hell is actually a very good idea. It's a good way to keep ourselves out of it.

  Dale Ahlquist

  Thinking, Ideas, Way

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• If you've got a good idea and you're willing to do whatever it takes to pursue it, keep your head up and eyes open because you don't know when opportunity will come knocking.

  Paula Deen

  Eye, Opportunity, Ideas

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• The realization that I came to is that each citizen for himself or herself understands the economics, which is, "I better make more than I spend and I better put something aside for a rainy day, and I want to get a good idea about what to do with the surplus so that perhaps it can grow while I'm sleeping." And that that's capitalism. Everybody practices it, but half of the country - those on the left - deny that it's true.

  David Mamet

  Country, Sleep, Rainy Day

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It's three disparate elements: the stop sign, the stage paintings, and the skeleton paintings. Those are three sharp ideas, although none of them are necessarily good ideas. Tons of artists have made whole careers out of those three ideas.

  Josh Smith

  Artist, Ideas, Skeletons

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's not a good idea to define the boundaries of normality by tearing apart people who are outside of it.

  Jon Ronson

  Ideas, People, Boundaries

  "Jon Ronson gets serious about Ashley Madison and Twitter-shaming". Interview with Katie Rife, www.avclub.com. October 12, 2015.

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• I don't think that split government is a good idea. Conventional wisdom in Washington for years has been that divided government is good because of a check and a balance. What I believe happens all too often, regardless of which party is there's gridlock. And I think the better argument is give one party a chance, give them a chance with a House and a Senate and a president. Give them a few years to see what they can do. And if you don't like it, put another party in.

  Scott Walker

  Believe, Party, Thinking

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• Our producer Jon Davison thought it would be a good idea to put in additional TV scenes. So, they sent me a tape of these additional TV scenes, and I watched them, and I didn't think they were that great. I didn't think it was worth putting them in.

  David Zucker

  Thinking, Ideas, Would Be

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's no such thing as good ideas and bad ideas. There are only your own ideas and other people's. If you want someone to like your idea, tell him he said it first last week and you just remembered it.

  Scott Adams

  Ideas, People, Want

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.447, Penguin

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• I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.

  Bruce Beresford

  Ideas, Long, Theatre

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• We must not forget that the wheel is reinvented so often because it is a very good idea; I've learned to worry more about the soundness of ideas that were invented only once.

  David Parnas

  Ideas, Worry, Wheels

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• You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.

  John McTiernan

  Ideas, Scripts, Wells

  "The Stax Report: Script Review Of Rollerball". www.ign.com. July 14, 2000.

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• So it is a good idea to start simple, I think, and be very careful. There is a spiritual opening in the Kosmos. Let us be careful of how we fill it. The simplest is: Spirit or Emptiness is unqualifiable, but it is not inert and unyielding, for it gives rise to manifestation itself: new forms emerge, and that creativity is ultimate. Emptiness, creativity, holons.

  Ken Wilber

  Spiritual, Creativity, Simple

  Ken Wilber (2001). “A Brief History of Everything”, p.39, Shambhala Publications

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• Another Quarter Pounder sometimes seems like a good idea- but I always regret later. Only in hindsight do we see how God would not let us settle for our well-intentioned but limited desires, but called us- sometimes weeping and kicking- to something more enduring and satisfying.

  Christopher Ruddy

  Regret, Ideas, Desire

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• Sleep is just a good idea. I bow to the god caffeine.

  Jo-Ann Mapson

  Sleep, Ideas, Bows

  Jo-Ann Mapson (2010). “Solomon's Oak”, p.230, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.

  Austin Kleon

  Ideas

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.14, Workman Publishing

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