Innovation Quotes of the Day
January 22, 2008 by Stephen Shapiro
Man can only have a certain number of teeth, hairs, and ideas. There comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, his hair, and his ideas. – Voltaire
Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats. - Howard Aiken
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. – P. B. Medawar
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I don’t agree with Voltaire on the ideas part. As Einstein says, ideas are unlimited. I would like to add, “at whatever age.” We don’t lose ideas, we gain ideas and wisdom with age.
Maybe the number of ideas we can have is unlimited. Our problem can be that as we get older we can find it harder to accept new ideas and end up rejecting our own ideas before we have voiced them. We need to remind ourselves to think young, at least some of the time. Take a look at http://changethis.com/16.EscapeAdulthood
Thanks for your comments! Your discussion inspired my latest blog entry.
http://www.steveshapiro.com/2008/02/07/do-we-get-less-creative-as-we-age/