Nick Bilton Quotes

People don’t invent things on the Internet. They simply expand on an idea that already exists.

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• Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Thought
  • Idea
  • Coffee

• The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway I-75 have no idea that, beneath them, are cave labyrinths still being mapped by speleologists - 'cavers,' they prefer to be called.

  

  Randy Wayne White
  • Idea
  • Fact
  • Florida

• When the idea of 'Chopped' surfaced, it was originally meant to be taped at some guy's mansion with him and his crazy Chihuahua. A stuffy fellow in a tuxedo was to host, and the losing chef's dish was then fed to the dog! I am not kidding, I saw it! I think it is genius! Twisted, but genius!

  

  Ted Allen
  • Idea
  • Genius
  • Twisted

• I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Pretty
  • Like
  • Idea

• I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Idea

• Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still have the clearest idea of every detail I want in my photograph.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Work
  • Idea
  • Photograph

• The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Christian
  • Idea
  • Go

• Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Family
  • True
  • Help

• If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • World
  • Change
  • Idea

• The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Idea
  • Something
  • Boring

• It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Love
  • Idea
  • Crass

• I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Idea
  • Place
  • Class

• My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God - he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Proud
  • Story
  • Idea

• Inspiration can hit you in the head at any time in any context. It could happen in a conversation. Talking to someone at a party, you can get an idea. But you've got to remember those inspirations.

  

  James Cameron
  • Time
  • Inspiration
  • Idea

• To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Man
  • Idea
  • Create

• I hated the idea that I would be like my father. Which is one of the reasons I decided I didn't want to be a writer and wanted to be an actor instead. I wanted to go in a total different direction. But, of course, I ended up being a writer anyway.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Up
  • Different
  • Father

• The idea of being the Substitute in offering an atonement to satisfy the demands of God’s law for others was something Christ understood as His mission from the moment He entered this world and took upon Himself a human nature. He came from heaven as the gift of the Father for the express purpose of working out redemption as our Substitute, doing for us what we could not possibly do for ourselves.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • World
  • God
  • Nature

• One of my greatest joys is when someone like your wife takes one idea or one piece of a recipe and does it her way. That's what I'm encouraging.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Wife
  • Idea
  • Encouraging

• Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Idea
  • Image
  • Conversion

• I never took any writing classes or planned to write. But I was working as an advertising copywriter in the late '80s and thought, 'What a shame there has never been a decent book on Jean Harlow,' then thought, 'Why don't I write one myself?' being kind of an idiot and not having the slightest idea what I was getting myself into.

  

  Eve Golden
  • Book
  • Idea
  • Write

• I will do everything in my power to ensure that our United Nations can live up to its name, and be truly united; so that we can live up to the hopes that so many people around the world place in this institution, which is unique in the annals of human history.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I think we go well together. I like being with you because I'm never bored. Even when we're not talking, even when we're not touching, even when we're not in the same room, I'm not bored. I'm never bored. I think it's because I have confidence in you, in your thoughts. Do you understand? I love everything I see in you, and everything I don't see. I know your faults, but as it turns out, I feel as though your faults go well with my qualities. We're not afraid of the same things. Even our inner demons go well together! You, you're worth more than you show.

  

  Anna Gavalda
  • Bored
  • Faults
  • Qualities

• I'm very honest in my music and I'm often asked to explain the lyrics; as an introvert, I find that quite hard. And I always wear high heels on stage, which can be painful.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Music
  • High
  • Always

• People don’t invent things on the Internet. They simply expand on an idea that already exists.

  

  Nick Bilton
  • Idea
  • Exists
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