“With the
technology at
our disposal, the
possibilities are
unbounded. All
we need to do
is make sure we
keep talking.”
—STEPHEN HAWKING“YOU ARE BRINGING SOME STRANGE IDEAS
TO OUR EARS, AND WE WOULD LIKE TO
KNOW WHAT THEY MEAN.”
—ACTS 17:20On Great Ideas
“Be less curious about
people and more
curious about ideas.”
—MARIE CURIETHOUGHTS
NEWSCOM (5)“Every now
and then,
maybe once in a
hundred cases,
a new idea turns
out to be on the
mark, valid and
wonderful.”
—CARL SAGAN“The power of vested
interests is vastly exaggerated
compared with the gradual
encroachment of ideas.”
—JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES“Kilgore Trout’s
unpopularity was
deserved. His prose
was frightful. Only
his ideas were good.”
—KURT VONNEGUT“ONE THOUGHT FILLS IMMENSITY.”
—WILLIAM BLAKE
“Many ideas grow better when
transplanted into another mind than
in the one where they sprang up.”
—OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR.“ONE MAN THAT HAS A
MIND AND KNOWS IT
CAN ALWAYS BEAT TEN
MEN WHO HAVEN’T
AND DON’T.”
—GEORGE BERNARD SHAWSOURCES: PHYSICS AND POLITICS, BY WALTER BAGEHOT; YANKEE FROM OLYMPUS: JUSTICE HOLMES AND HIS FAMILY, BY CATHERINE DRINKER BOWEN;
THE GENERAL THEORY OF EMPLOYMENT, INTEREST AND MONEY, BY JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES; THE APPLE CART, BY GEORGE BERNARD SHAW;
THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL, BY WILLIAM BLAKE; SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE, BY KURT VONNEGUT.92 | FORBES ASIA NOVEMBER 2016FINAL
THOUGHT
“You cannot help
the kind of brains
you were born with,
but you can help the
kind you go through
life with. And that’s
what counts.”
—B.C. FORBES“THE MIND IS A TOOL,
A MACHINE, MOVED BY
SPIRITUAL FIRE.”
—FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY“One of the greatest
pains to human nature is
the pain of a new idea.”
—WALTER BAGEHOT“IF I HAVE DONE
THE PUBLIC ANY
SERVICE, IT IS
DUE TO PATIENT
THOUGHT.”
—ISAAC NEWTON