* TED Talks: Alan Kay shares a powerful idea about ideas at TED in 2007

The abstraction provided by group actions is a powerful one, because it allows geometrical ideas to be applied to more abstract objects.

The simple square glass pavilion is a powerful expression of his ideas about flexible interior space, defined by transparent walls and supported by an external structural frame.

Eventually coming to adopt an orthodox Marxist-Leninist position by accepting not only Marx's ideas but also those of Lenin, he came to view Chinese nationalism as a powerful tool in the national liberation struggle against western and Japanese dominance, but unlike orthodox Marxist-Leninists also viewed nationalism as something intrinsically valuable in itself.

The political platform of the Libertarian Party reflects the ideas of libertarianism, favoring minimally regulated markets, a less powerful state, strong civil liberties ( including support for same-sex marriage and other LGBT rights ), cannabis legalization and regulation, separation of church and state, open immigration, non-interventionism and neutrality in diplomatic relations ( i. e., avoiding foreign military or economic entanglements with other nations ), freedom of trade and travel to all foreign countries, and a more responsive and direct democracy.

Capra made his primary focus the creation of " one basic, powerful idea " that would spread and evolve into other related ideas.

Heidegger's novel ideas about ontology required a gestalt formation, not merely a series of logical arguments, in order to demonstrate his fundamentally new paradigm of thinking, and the hermeneutic circle offered a new and powerful tool for the articulation and realization of these ideas.

The opposite of knowledge-K-was what Bion termed-K: " powerful beta-elements term for primitive proto-mental experiences are linked ... the operation of '- K ' as the process that strips, denudes, and devalues persons, experiences, and ideas.

It was largely because of his brooding sense of injustice that he developed his ideas of " sinister interest " that is, of the vested interests of the powerful conspiring against a wider public interestwhich underpinned many of his broader arguments for reform.

Luther's ideas spread rapidly as a consequence of a powerful combination of popular enthusiasm for church reform and a royal eagerness to secure greater wealth through the seizure of church lands and property.

It was largely because of his sense of injustice that he developed his ideas of ' sinister interest ' – that is, of the vested interests of the powerful conspiring against a wider public interest – which underpinned many of his broader arguments for reform.

" Comparisons and judgments become habitual, are stored in the mind and formed into series, and thus arises the powerful principle of the association of ideas.

Ramananda's ashram in Varanasi became a powerful center of religious influence, from which his ideas spread far and wide among all classes of Indians.

The ideas of cosmological prestige are the precursors to Tiwanaku's powerful empire.

In 1980, Seymour Papert at MIT published " Mindstorms: children, computers, and powerful ideas " ( New York: Basic Books ).

Galen extended these ideas and developed a powerful and influential school of thought within the biological tradition that extended well into the 18th century.

It incorporated ideas and practices related to the practice of liturgy and ceremony in a move to bring more powerful emotional symbolism and energy to the church.

: The idée fixe — staying thin — becomes at its furthest extreme so powerful as to render any other ideas or life projects meaningless.

On the surface it was not unlike the dedicated word processors popular in the late 1970s to early 1980s, but it was far more powerful and incorporated many unique ideas for data manipulation.

His understanding was that western society had become powerful relative to other countries at the time because western countries fostered education, individualism ( independence ), competition and exchange of ideas.

"... the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood.

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But ideas, just for the sake of having them, are not enough.

After the war, enough British and American anthropologists borrowed ideas and methodological approaches from one another that some began to speak of them collectively as ' sociocultural ' anthropology.

came in with some great ideas and she had reinvented some of the lore and it was pretty cool but in the end there just wasn ’ t enough on the page .”

# It is not good enough to have ideas, you must also be able to implement them and know they work.

He saw himself as doing Allah's bidding, yet he was inquisitive enough to explore new ideas about religion, intelligent enough to understand that Hindus were in the majority and grand enough in his pretensions not to need to obey every line of the Qur ' an.

Gatherings in America are usually at parks or places with enough space for a large group of letterboxers to meet up and do exchanges ( exchanging of personal stamps and / or personal travelers ), as well as talk and discuss box ideas.

However, there is not enough evidence to implement such ideas at the current time, and a number of the broader issues are not specific to schizophrenia.

The concept of the explosively pumped flux compression generator for generating a non-nuclear electromagnetic pulse was conceived as early as 1951 by Andrei Sakharov in the Soviet Union, but nations have usually kept their most recent work on non-nuclear EMP highly classified until the technology was old enough for similar ideas to be conceived by physicists in other nations.

Hannibal gave my young ideas such a turn that I used to strut in raptures up and down after the recruiting drum and bagpipe, and wish myself tall enough that I could be a soldier ; while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins which will boil along there till the flood-gates of life shut in eternal rest.

Hofstadter later recognized ( what he saw as ) the influence of Darwinist and other evolutionary ideas upon those with collectivist views, enough to devise a term for the phenomenon, “ Darwinist collectivism .” Before Hofstadter's work the use of the term in English academic journals was quite rare.

Its rationale is inductive: it works often enough, is the only source of new ideas, and has no substitute in expediting the discovery of new truths.

There's enough land here to hold all the ideas and plans we could possibly imagine ", Walt Disney said, referring to the fact that he had little control over the surrounding area of Disneyland.

Schwarzschild concluded the letter by writing: " As you see, the war treated me kindly enough, in spite of the heavy gunfire, to allow me to get away from it all and take this walk in the land of your ideas.

Their ideas were well received by TSR, whose marketing department felt they had enough dungeons, but not enough dragons.

One reason for this situation is that proponents of new methods have been so sure that their ideas are so new and so correct that they could not conceive that the older ones have enough validity to cause controversy.

Herbart believed ideas crossed a limen of consciousness, or a boundary between the conscious and the unconscious, as they became clearer and strong enough to preserve themselves against their struggle with other forces.

A common misconception is that scientific theories are rudimentary ideas that will eventually graduate into scientific laws when enough data and evidence has been accumulated.

By his association with Henry Harvey Vivian and the co-partnership housing movement his ideas attracted enough attention and funding to begin Letchworth Garden City, a suburban garden city north of London.

Alexander has come to believe that patterns themselves are not enough, and that one needs a " morphogenetic " understanding of the formation of the built environment ; he has published his ideas in the four-volume work The Nature of Order.

This cosmic theory is a curious combination of materialistic and abstract ideas ; the influence of his master Bernardino Telesio, generally predominant, is not strong enough to overcome his inherent disbelief in the adequacy of purely scientific explanation.