Many, if not most, good ideas die young — mainly from neglect on the part of the parents, but sometimes from over-fondness. Once well started, an opinion had better be left to shift for itself.

No technology startup has a long shelf life. Even the best ideas become terrible ideas after a certain age.

WE ALL HAVE ideas. Ideas are immortal. They last forever. What doesn’t last forever is inspiration. Inspiration is like fresh fruit or milk: It has an expiration date.

Todos tenemos ideas. Las ideas son inmortales. Duran siempre. Lo que no dura siempre es la inspiración. Es como la fruta fresca o la leche: tiene fecha de caducidad. Si quieres hacer algo, tienes que hacerlo ahora.

When you're young and have ideas, people
often think you're just being childish and silly.

I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.

Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.

Without new ideas success can become stale.

Some ideas are born as you write then down, others become dead.

Breakthrough ideas have traditionally been difficult to manage for two reasons: 1) innovative ideas fail far more than they succeed, and 2) innovative ideas are always controversial before they succeed. If everyone could instantly understand them, they wouldn’t be innovative.

Ideas become prominent and then fade.

Now, your great fear in art is that it's never guaranteed you're going to get that next idea. And there's always the fear that the idea you just made that you really, really love, you'll never be able to do it again.

Good ideas come with a heavy burden. Which is why so few people have them. So few people can handle it.