In other words, the idea for the iPad actually came…

I actually came up with Funkasaurus.

— Tyrus

“The last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it.”

— Walter Isaacson

“in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs’s girlfriend at Homestead High,…

— Walter Isaacson

“Jobs's intensity was also evident in his ability to focus. He would set priorities, aim his laser attention on them, and filter out distractions.…

— Walter Isaacson

I had an idea for a technologically advanced luxury watch. I got involved in digital art and neon painting and put on shows of…

— Giorgio Moroder

I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting…

— Peter Morgan

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our…

— Rodney Atkins

The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit.

— Martha Roby

The idea is not to copy nature, but to give a feeling of nature.

— Piet Oudolf

When there's a firestorm going on around you, you have very little idea of what's next.

— Richard Quest

The idea with a collection is sort of to begin with a kind of bang.

— Robert Christgau

I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in…

— Abraham Verghese

Everybody has a good idea, but nothing goes as planned.

— Tyler Winklevoss

Sometimes it's just enough for me to have the idea. I don't need to see it through to the end. When it actually happens,…

— Amy Sedaris

You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

— Karl Kraus