A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

Really, I like the future. I appreciate my automatic alarm-call necklace in case I get lost and confused in a mall. I appreciate the watch that tells the hospital my blood pressure's gone ballistic. I like my computer, just as long as it doesn't get ideas above its workstation.

A. Bartlett Giamatti
A. Bartlett Giamatti

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

A. E. Waite
A. E. Waite

The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.

Aaron D. O'Connell
Aaron D. O'Connell

Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on the broad ideas; they don't focus on social interconnectedness. They focus on the task that they're doing.

Aaron Patzer
Aaron Patzer

One of my top tips for aspiring entrepreneurs: Tell everyone you know about your idea. This runs contrary to the instinct that most people have, because they're afraid someone is going to 'steal my ideal.' Ideas alone are worth very little; it's in the execution and market feedback that companies are made.

Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Sorkin

I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank.

Abby Johnson
Abby Johnson

If Disney wants ideas for a princess, make her an independent woman, one who is not afraid to face the daily struggles of life, and refuses to wear expensive dresses. Because we all know life is messy, and those dresses are too pretty to get dirty.

Abdullah II of Jordan
Abdullah II of Jordan

There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.

Abhijit Banerjee
Abhijit Banerjee

One problem with globalisation is that bad ideas seem to travel faster than good ones; first there was smearing tomato ketchup on everything; then drinking sugar-soaked cocktails ('Cosmo'-politanism) instead of our traditional whisky soda, and now this idea that we should abandon the poor to their fate in order to protect their dignity.

Abhijit Banerjee
Abhijit Banerjee

One great pleasure of being an academic is the ability to trade in ideas with your colleagues and students; it is not much fun being the only connoisseur of some fine point.