“Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.”

“You can get in way more trouble with a good idea than a bad idea, because you forget that the good idea has limits.”

“We are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them... Environments that build walls around good ideas tend to be less innovative in the long run than more open-ended environments. Good ideas may not want to be free, but they want to connect, fuse, recombine.... They want to complete each other as much as they want to compete.The single maxim that runs through the book: Where Good Ideas Come From .”

“Your job is to collect good ideas. The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.”

“There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.”

“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”