Abhijit Banerjee
Abhijit Banerjee

Whenever we try something new, mistakes will happen. Seemingly good ideas will fail and need to be re-thought.

Abigail Disney
Abigail Disney

My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.

Abigail Disney
Abigail Disney

Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.

Abigail Johnson
Abigail Johnson

Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organization forward.

Abu Bakar Bashir
Abu Bakar Bashir

We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?

Abu Bakar Bashir
Abu Bakar Bashir

But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.

Ad-Rock
Ad-Rock

That's what real punk is about - doing it yourself and building a community where people share ideas and share creativity.

Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace

The ideas which led to the Analytical Engine occurred in a manner wholly independent of any that were connected with the Difference Engine. These ideas are indeed, in their own intrinsic nature, independent of the latter engine and might equally have occurred had it never existed nor even been thought of at all.

Adam Curtis
Adam Curtis

I have a suspicion that the politicians' revival of the old behaviourist ideas and techniques will be helped and reinforced by a powerful ally - the machines we have built. The computers.

Adam Curtis
Adam Curtis

The latest rule is: you cannot have protectionism - otherwise you will get a world war. Other rules say you cannot have collective ideas that involve the surrender of the individual to the group - otherwise, you get totalitarianism or, even worse, religion.