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
- 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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