A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

Whenever I hear people talking about "liberal ideas," I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.

We are prisoners of ideas.

Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.

There is only one way in which a person acquires a new idea; by combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not previously aware.

It is useless to send armies against ideas.

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.