A Quote by Walter Isaacson

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

Walter Isaacson

Quote Topics

Crazy Differently Holes Misfits Rebels Round See Square Things Troublemakers

Quote Author

Walter Isaacson
American - Writer
Born: May 20, 1952

Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently - they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Steve Jobs

Corporations no longer try to fit square pegs into round holes; they just fit them into square cubicles.

Robert Breault

You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are.

Benjamin Hoff

At times, we, as coaches, try to shove guys as square pegs into round holes and keep hammering away.

John Calipari

People going in the wrong direction will get like that. Round pegs just don't fit in square holes.

J.R. Ward

Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

Aldous Huxley

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

George Berkeley

About half of all design patterns out there [...] appear to be ways take perfectly natural design ideas and twist them to fit into someones static type system: recipes for pounding square pegs into round holes

Steve Yegge

Is there some situation where square wheels would be better than round wheels? Sure! A round wheel has a pressure point directly under the tire. A square wheel's corners are going to bite and propel you forward. The square wheel could be superior on snow or mud or sand.

Jamie Hyneman

Throughout history, people with new ideas—who think differently and try to change things—have always been called troublemakers.

Richelle Mead

Rebels learn the rules better than the rule-makers do. Rebels learn where the holes are, where the rules can best be breached. Become an expert at the rules. Then break them with creativity and style.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

Elbert Hubbard

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball and they tell you to hit it square.

Willie Stargell

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.

Willie Stargell

We have Islamic rebels [in Syria] who've been eating the hearts or organs of their enemies. We have priests that have been killed. We have Christian villages that have been razed by Islamic rebels. We have Islamic rebels who say they don't recognize Israel and would just as soon attack Israel as [Bashar] Assad. So really, I see no clear-cut American interest, and I'm afraid that sometimes things unravel, and the situation could become less stable and not more stable.