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There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.
Georges Clemenceau
From now on, I'll connect the dotsmy own way.
Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
For those who want a quick summary of a few of the things that we anticipate will become extinct in coming years:2009: Mending things2014: Getting lost2016: Retirement2019: Libraries2020: Copyright2030: Keys2033: Coins2036: Petrol engined vehicles2037: Glaciers
Ross Dawson Blog
If you don't make mistakes,you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
F. Wikzek
You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.
Morpheus to Neo in The Matrix
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
E. F. Schumacher
Modern man is a prisonerwho thinks he is freebecause he refrainsfrom touching the walls of his dungeon.
Nicols Gmez Dvila
There is nothing so uselessas doing efficientlythat which should not be done at all.
Peter Drucker
Only dead fish swim with the stream.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Your father lost his job to a robot, right? ...You probably would have banned the Internet to keep the libraries open.
Lance Robertson to Detective Del Spooner in I Robot
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
Frank Scully
What is a collectionin an age of abundance?
Rivkah Sass
Our mission is toorganize the worlds information.
Susan Wojcicki, Googles Director of Product Management
The absence of alternativesclears the mind marvelously.
Henry Kissinger
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Nelson Mandela
Your future depends upon many things, but mostly on you.
Frank Tyger
A coupla months in the laboratory can save a coupla hours in the library
Westheimers Discovery
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information resources that might consume it.
Herbert Alexander Simon
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
Nothing is more dangerousthan an ideawhen it is the only one you have.
Emile Chartier
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Franklin P. Jones
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.
Mario Andretti
Not all those who wanderare lost.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Every society honors its live conformists, and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Time sneaks up on youlike a windshield on a bug.
Jon Lithgow
If you are not criticized,you are not doing much.
Donald Rumsfeld
One dog barks at something,and a hundred bark at the bark.
Chinese Proverb
Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to followyour heart and intuition.
Steve Jobs
Never be afraidto try something new.Remember,amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic.
Unknown
The conventional viewserves to protect usfrom thepainful job of thinking.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Even if the voices are not real, they have some good ideas.
Unknown
Beaten paths are for beaten people and it's not that life is too short it's just that we're dead for such a long time.
Unknown
Too many of us arenot living our dreamsbecause we areliving our fears.
Les Brown
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities,and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Harry S Truman
Before you can break out of prison, you must first realize you're locked up.
Unknown
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip, and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
Unknown
One who says it can't be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
Chinese Proverb
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growingtaking risks,breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
Mary Lou Cook
Never say, "oops." Always say, "Ah, interesting."
Unknown
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
Rosa Luxemburg
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
Rosa Luxemburg
Don't think you're on the right road just because its a well-beaten path.
Unknown
Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.
Walter Russell
When one doors closes,another door opens.
Helen Keller
The most damaging phrasein the language is:"It's always been done that way."
Grace Hopper
Whether you think you can,or think you cannot,you are right.
Henry Ford
I have not failed.I've just found10,000 waysthat won't work.
Thomas Edison
When you lose,don't lose the lesson.
Dalai Lama
If we dont take care of the customer, maybe theyllstop bugging us.
Despair.com poster
If we dontchange the direction were going, were likely toend up where were headed.
Chinese proverb
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham Lincoln
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
Edward De Bono
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorablebut more usefulthan a life spentin doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
Unknown
Until you've lost your reputation, you never realizewhat a burden it was.
Margaret Mitchell