But, as so often happens, ideas have a way of migrating in unexpected ways.

Cooperation will occur naturally as the agents identify mutual dependencies, synergies and opportunities to provide services products or ideas to one another.

It sounded impossible considering the small population of Bahrain but the international tweeting support helped in making it happen. Here are some of the tweets posted

In any contest of ideas, the extreme will usually triumph over the moderate.

So it is understandable that both leading presidential candidates, Donald Tusk and Lech Kaczynski, ran as fast as they could from liberal ideas.

So what's happening over time in life is that the ways in which you generate these new ideas, these new hacks, are increasing. And the real tricks are ways in which you kind of explore the way of exploring.

A Contagion of Bad Ideas

A Time to Dare

Ideas over Interests

Civilizing the Marketplace of Ideas

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

First, some economists argue that we have simply been lucky, because there has been no structural change that has made the world economy more resilient.

GV Everybody knows that the blackout in Libya and the banning of foreign channels to enter the country, made the bloggers the most important source of news during the Libyan revolution.

Words express thoughts.

Some informal ideas were presented.

But I'm also sure that, because of the connections people are making, and the ability of ideas to meet and to mate as never before, I'm also sure that technology will advance, and therefore living standards will advance.

And this one is I wish to launch a groundbreaking competition that motivates kids to invest ideas on, and invent ideas on, sustainability.

Information designer Tom Wujec talks through three areas of the brain that help us understand words, images, feelings, connections. In this short talk from TEDU, he asks How can we best engage our brains to help us better understand big ideas?

The Global Ideas Bank is the opposite of Halfbakery in that ideas are proposed seriously, and in some cases actually implemented.

Following the placement of each of the ideas into one of the categories above, the participants Workshop agreed to forward to the Open ended Working Group the following list of ideas and activities that could form the basis of a conceptual framework of cooperation to address illegal trade in ozone depleting substances. In so doing, some delegates noted that many of the same ideas could be used to address illegal trade in products or equipment containing ozone depleting substances

It's a millefiori of ideas.

But ideas matter.

He has a lot of original ideas.

American Conservatism s Crisis of Ideas

In the following interview Bashir tells his story.

The government will not even discuss the Charter s ideas, let alone do anything to implement them.

A book, The Big Idea Book, comprising 500 of the best ideas was published by Wiley in 2003.

So what's going on here? What's happening?

It's the interchange of ideas, the meeting and mating of ideas between them, that is causing technological progress, incrementally, bit by bit.

Matt Ridley When ideas have sex

We use game dynamics to build on it. We build with mindshare.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

It is high time that these ideas are implemented.

The real struggle is about ideas.

New ideas are like new drugs.

It gave me some insights.

Let me share a few thoughts with you.

The diversity and evolution of thought are human gifts.

Ideas matter in politics and having only a few simplistic ones of his own, Bush found his agenda shaped and dominated by his clever surrogate and deputy.

On re regulating finance, there are plenty of good ideas, but little convergence.

The best way to ensure that the Fund remains open to new ideas is by selecting the person with the best ideas to lead it.

The best ideas from candidates were combined with the best from activists the final scores reflected a combination of convergence and originality.

By cultural evolution we mean the evolution of ideas.

Natalie Jeremijenko The art of the eco mindshift

Alan Kay shares a powerful idea about ideas