“One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.” ScienceRealizingNumbersSuccessfulStupidScientistDullConceptionNarrow-mindedNarrow Minds Author:Konrad Lorenz
“The subscription model of buying music is bankrupt. I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model and it might not be successful.” PeopleThinkingMightSuccessfulStupidMusic IsModelsAvailableBuyingBeing SuccessfulStupid PeopleSubscription Author:Steve Jobs
“People are stupid. There's a lot of dumb stuff that's successful.” PeopleStuffSuccessfulStupidDumbDumb Stuff Author:Adam Carolla
“David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.” IfsWayIdeasFeelingsHomeSongMy OwnHalfSuccessfulStreetsStupidDancingBombsBeing SuccessfulCoveredVansWay HomeHalf WayVan HalenPlaying Someone Author:Eddie Van Halen
“I know a lot of successful people and none of them are stupid.” PeopleKnowsSuccessfulStupidSuccessful People Author:Rob Paulsen
“The K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Stupid) principle was pounded into my head in school and I still follow it today in most of my designs. I know that my most successful efforts are the simplest. I always find myself trying to subtract detail from design concepts in an attempt to distill the idea down to the most basic communication tool.” KnowsTryingStillsIdeasTodaySchoolSimpleEffortPrinciplesSuccessfulStupidDesignCommunicationConceptsToolsDetailsSimplestKeep It Simple Author:Jeff Fisher
“I don't make rules myself. I didn't study enough to be able to make them. I'm too stupid. I spend my whole life making movies, so I have to enjoy it. Even at times when we had a very tight and difficult schedule, it was always enjoyable. Of course I wonder if the film will be successful afterwards. It's wonderful if a film becomes successful as a result of the enjoyment that we had” IfsEnoughWholeAbleFilmCoursesEnjoyDifficultResultsWonderStudySuccessfulWonderfulStupidWhole LifeEnjoymentBeing SuccessfulSchedulesEnjoyableBecoming Successful Author:Takashi Miike
“As always, I wonder if I'll get through the winter. Then when winter is over, I wonder about the summer. But that's because the system decided which author shall be commercially successful. As I said, the most vicious of them all is The New York Times, because it pretends to be literary and impartial, and it's really this opinionated, myopic, stupid giant of incompetence.” IfsSaidWonderSuccessfulStupidNew YorkSummerDecidedWinterGiantsViciousNew York TimesIncompetenceOpinionatedMyopic Author:James Purdy