Quotable Quotes
- An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if
he enters through the window, you've got a situation," said the
sorely missed film director Billy Wilder. Make a situation of
your own today.
- There is very little success where there is little laughter - Andrew Carnegie
- Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle - Author Robert Anthony
- Forget regret, or life is yours to miss - Jonathan Larson
- The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition - John D.Rockefeller
- The best way to become boring is to say everything. - Voltaire
- Business is built by men who care--care enough to disagree, to fight it out to a finish, get
facts. When two men always agree, one of them is unnecessary- William Wrigley Jr.
- He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. - Michel de Montaigne
- The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits-Albert Einstein
- People seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication.- computer scientist Niklaus Wirth
- Wisdom begins in wonder - Socrates
- The only sin is mediocrity-dancer and choreographer Martha Graham
- You must do the things you think you cannot do-Eleanor Roosevelt
- I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. - Douglas Adams
- It’s a small world, and being cocky can come back to haunt you.” His advice to upcoming tech leaders is to “stay humble and don’t lose touch with the world." Edward Y. Hsu
- Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom-Thomas Jefferson
- Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses,
and some don't turn up at all-Sam Ewig
- Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow- Glen Beaman
- Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear-Ambrose Redmoon
- The greatest power is often simple patience
- I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been-Wayne Gretsky
- One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions-Oliver Wendell Holmes
- The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn-David Russell
- Knowledge is power... knowledge is safety... knowledge is happiness-Thomas Jefferson
- Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe.
I dispute that. I say that there is plenty more stupidity than hydrogen,
and that is the basic building block of the universe-Frank Zappa
- Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use–IBM founder Thomas J. Watson
- Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools,because they have to say something-Plato
- People only see what they are prepared to see-Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please-Mark Twain
- Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent-George Orwell
- Don't open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in a bundle and keep them near your heart-Kabir
- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety-Ben Franklin
- The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem- Economist Milton Friedman
- It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary-Sir Winston Churchill
- Technology is dominated by two types of people: Those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what
they do not understand-Putt's law
- The important thing is not to stop questioning-Albert Einstein
- It is appallingly obvious that our technology exceeds our humanity-Albert Einstein
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- Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history-George Bernard
Shaw
- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it-George Santayana , The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905
- My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate-Thornton
Wilder
- Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality-Bertrand Russell
- Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd-Voltaire
- You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough-Frank H. Crane
- Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence-Francis Jeffrey
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent-Isaac Asimov
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