Progress, Creativity and Idea Creation

I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

Source:  Henry Ford (unsourced)
Taken From:  Everything is a Remix, Pt 3

Pirates in the Sky

We plan to use some kind of balloon and try to keep it up in the air for as long as possible, Hopefully irritating the crap out of authorities in as many countries as possible.

Erik Lönroth (Oct 19th 2010, A Swedish Engineer, Interviewed discussions for a high altitude balloon that would host a file sharing site)

VCRs

I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.

Jack Valenti's (ex-MPAA president in a statement to a U.S. Congressional panel, 1982)

Repetative Success

Here is how you will know when your idea has been a success. Someone will repeat it to you, and he will have no idea where it came from.

Leonard E. Read (Founder of Foundation for Economic Education)