idea assessment Quotes

Good ideas will always get funded, so that's not going to be a problem. But you will see that it will be harder and harder for bad ideas to get funded.

Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.

You must find the ideas that have some promise in them... It is not enough to just have ideas.

People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.

I've long ago learned that if an idea will stand on its own, it'll stand having the light shone on it. But if you shine light on it and it kind of withers, then it probably wasn't a very good idea.

I think we are used to being critical and evaluating ideas.

If your ideas are good they rise, and if they're a bit crap they sink.

The way deals are done, every idea is looked at 50 different ways. Now, the market continues to change all the time. And we are always looking at everything in evaluating how it fits with our strategy.

Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.

I spent 90 percent of every day saying no to dopey ideas.

The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.

The idea that we should be open to all ideas is very different from the supposition that all ideas are equally valid.

Recognize that killing a weak idea early is valuable.

A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.

We don't have ways of resolving the arguments in idea meritocratic way.

Content may by trivial. But I do not think that any person may pronounce either upon the weight or upon the triviality of an idea before its execution.

At some point, you have to declare an idea dead and, if not a failure, then at least not a success.

I've always been inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, who articulated his Dream of an America where people are judged not by skin color but "by the content of their character." In the scientific world, people are judged by the content of their ideas. Advances are made with new insights, but the final arbitrator of any point of view are experiments that seek the unbiased truth, not information cherry picked to support a particular point of view.