Death Quote by Dennis Ritchie

There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of…

— Mark Twain

Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can…

— Eric Hoffer

New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at…

— Andy Rooney

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

— Alfred North Whitehead

New ideas are difficult just because they are new. Repetition has somehow plastered over the gaps and inconsistencies in the old ones, and the…

— Joan Robinson

It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have…

— John Archibald Wheeler

What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it is actually…

— Robert Hass

To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a few new…

— William James

Almost always great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have…

— Clayton Christensen

All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.

— Hyman Rickover

Some ideas need to be continually reinvented and rediscovered, particularly an idea like the omnipotence of humans. It takes a long time to give…

— David Holmgren

After any disturbance (such as two world wars coinciding with a period of growing economic and monetary incomprehensibility) we find our old concepts inadequate…

— Rebecca West