Quotes

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had (Eric Schmidt)


It’s technology married with liberal arts, married with humanities, that yields the results that make our hearts sing (Steve Jobs)


If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse (Henry Ford)


Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect (Mark Twain)


Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination (Oscar Wilde)


A person who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new (Albert Einstein)


We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence therefore is not an act, but a habit (Aristotle)


No one can hurt you without your consent (Eleanor Roosevelt)


Success is on the far side of failure (T. J. Watson)


Management is doing things right, leadership is doing the right things (Peter Drucker)


If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything (Marty McFly in “Back to the Future”)


Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life

(John F. Kennedy)


I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time (Herbert Bayard Swope)


The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man (George Bernard Shaw)


Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development (Sextus Julius Frontinus, 1st century AD)


We all know what to do, but we don’t know how to get re-elected once we have done it (Jean-Claude Juncker, Luxembourg prime minister, 2007)


The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes (Marcel Proust)


When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life (John Lennon)


Stay hungry, stay foolish (Steve Jobs)