The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Adams, Scott
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
Ali, Muhammad
A man who is not courageous enough to take risks will never accomplish anything in life.
Don't count the days. Make the days count.
Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.
I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
Allen, James
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honour.
An old Russian proverb
He who doesn't take risks, doesn't drink champagne.
Angelou Maya
If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
Apple Computer
Here's to the crazy ones. The rebels. The troublemakers. The ones who see things differently. While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
It just works.
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. And they have no respect for the status quo.
Think Different.
We simplify. We perfect. We start over.
Aristotle
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Armstrong, Edwin
Men substitute words for reality and then fight over words.
Army of the Dead (2008)
Life can be as simple as you choose it to be.
Ash, Mary Kay
We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives.
Asija, Pal
Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgement.
Success is often one step beyond your quitting point.
Asper, Izzy
Reach for the Stars!
Astronaut Farmer, The
If we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.
Aurelian, Olisiel
If you just dare to touch the Fire, The Fire will touch YOU...
Barry, Frank
Life is great when you keep improving...
Bartels, Frank
No only means no if you accept it as such.
Success is all a matter of luck... but the harder I work the luckier I get.
Baumann, Alex
The challenge is making sure you don't adopt a consensus approach, that everybody's happy. In the end you take everybody's input but you have to make a decision and sometimes that decision is unpopular. But that's what leadership is, in my opinion.
Bell, Alexander Graham
An inventor a man who looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world.
Belson, Jerry
Never ASSUME, because when you ASSUME, you make an ASS of U and ME.
Bekeryt?, Greta
Don't listen to others, just listen to yourself. Find that thing that you are really interested in and go for it.
Berle, Milton
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Bewitched
3 P's: patience, persistence, and perseverance.
Bible (God)
Do not judge, and you will not be judged yourself.
Where there is no vision the people perish.
BNR/NT/Nortel
Simple Design is Good Design.
Simplicity Trumps Complexity.
Bohr, Niels
Don't look behind, look ahead!
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Every battle is won before it's ever fought.
Bukowski, Charles
Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who to be?
Burke, Edmund (1791)
A state without the means of change is without the means of its conservation.
Burnham, Nancy
Your career will go by faster than you can imagine. Don't waste any of that time working with people that you don't respect or get along with.
Cadre
Frame, or framework. A visual image that describes the French parenting ideal: setting firm limits for children, but giving them tremendous freedom within those limits.
Cameron, James
Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own.
Carman, Bliss
Tradition is the father of persecutions, the uncle of falsehoods, the brother of ignorance, and the grandsire of a thousand hideous sins against sweetness and light.
Carnegie, Andrew
Self-discipline and organized thinking are almost synonymous terms.
There can be no organized thinking without strict self-discipline, for after all, organized thought is nothing but carefully chosen thought.
Thought habits can be established only through strict self-discipline.
Cassaday, John
Shit just happens.
CBC - Canada's Public Broadcaster
Imagine a place where you can be whatever you can imagine. Be yourself. And be all the ideas that come with you. The innovations and the aspirations, where you can show your pride, cheer who you like, stand up for what you believe, and believe in what you stand for, just imagine, there is a place, the world calls it Canada, we call it home. So carry on being you, the creators, the innovators, legends and champions, the people who make this home possible. Wear your pride, be your Canada, show the world what they already know. "The world needs more Canada!" Tell them Canada is here.
Charlie
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
Chomsky, Noam
Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
I never believe anything anybody else tells me. I always try to form my own opinion.
If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.
Chopin, Frédéric
Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.
Christ, Jesus
Judge not, and you shall not be judged.
Judge not, that you be not judged.
Churchill, Winston S.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never give in.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Cicero
Inter arma enim silent leges.
In time of war, the law falls silent.
Clarke, Arthur C.
He never grew up, but he never stopped growing.
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is
possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. (Arthur C. Clarke's First Law)
Coelho, Paulo
If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.
Coolidge, Calvin
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself.
Confucius
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
Costco
Do the right thing.
Cosway, William C.
It is extremely difficult, to make things simple!
It is extremely simple, to make things difficult!
Crichton, Michael
Simple design is always the most difficult to achieve.
da Vinci, Leonardo
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Dante's Inferno
If you always see the road ahead of you, it's not worth the trip.
de Climont, Jean
Paradoxes are troublesome.
Inconsistencies are lethal.
Dear Abby
Evil is in the eye of the beholder. Don't make something your problem when it's really theirs.
Dewar, James
Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.
Dijkstra, Edsger W.
Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.
Disraeli, Benjamin
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Dixon, Paul
Do what you can, where you are, with what you've got. Break the rules, be different, be dynamic, but above all, be yourself! And have fun doing it!
Divinsky, Nathan
If the crowd is going in one direction fast, go in the other direction slowly.
Dow, Richard
You've got to be crazy to be good.
Dumas, Alexandre
There are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.
Dunninger, Joseph
For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation will suffice.
Edison, Thomas Alva
Genius is 1 % inspiration and 99 % perspiration.
I have not failed. I've just found 10 000 ways that won't work.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
What you are will show in what you do.
Einstein, Albert
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
A quiet and modest life brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant unrest." (a note)
A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them.
All human beings, whatever their position in society, are suffering from this deterioration. Unknowingly prisoners of their own egotism, they feel insecure, lonely, and deprived of the naive, simple, and unsophisticated enjoyment of life... The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage, to move in the opposite direction.
Be stubborn.
Education is not the learning of the facts. It's rather the training of the mind to think.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
I have no special gift. I am only passionately curious.
If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's upcoming attractions.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
It takes more intelligence/brilliance to make things really simple than to make them too complex and obtuse.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Nature has punished my hatred for authority by making me an authority.
Never memorise what you can look up in books.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
Only those who attempt the Absurd will achieve the Impossible.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
The cult of individuals is always, in my view, unjustified... It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
The desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological development, which may become injurious for the individual and the community.
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Things should be made as simple as possible, but not too simple.
You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a single concept of which I am convinced it will stand firm. (on his 70th birthday in a letter to Solvine)
Where there's a will, there's a way. (a note)
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Engineer
Why be right when you can approximate?
existential.reflections and philosophy_fix
Most of the people you will meet throughout your life only know how to eat, shit and die - so there is no reason to listen to their advice.
Fang, Tina
It's never too old to learn.
Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it.
Farmer, Alain
Simple things are often the hardest to materialise. We cannot see the forest because there are too many trees in the way. Simplicity takes a *LOT* of work...
Feynman, Richard
Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty - some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely sure.
What do you care what other people think?
Figliuzzi, Joseph
As for simplicity, maybe it takes a simple guy to think in simple terms.
I was stunned at the simplicity, and even more by the question: why did it take centuries for such a simple device to come into being?
It is elegant in its simplicity!
Fleischmann's Margarine
When you change yourself, you change everything.
Fletcher, Steven
I believe the constituents would rather have an MP that was paralyzed from the neck down than the neck up.
Flickinger, R. Charles
Magic is imagination and learning.
Forbes, Malcolm
Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
Ford, Henry
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
If I'd asked people what they wanted, they would have asked for a better horse.
Forster, E. M.
Spoon-feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
Franklin, Benjamin
A penny saved is a penny earned.
French Joke
The simpleton didn't know the task was impossible, so he did it.
Fresco, Jacque
If you want a better world you have to work toward it. If you do nothing, nothing will happen.
Remember that almost every new concept was ridiculed, rejected, and laughed at when first presented, especially by the experts of the time.
Galilei, Galileo
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Garland, Judy
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else.
Gehry, Frank
In the world we live in, 98 percent of what gets built and designed today is pure shit.
General Electric
Simplify work and eliminate unnecessary procedures.
Speed, Simplicity and Self-Confidence.
Take a total look at how any process in an organisation gets done, and look for a simpler way.
Work Out, Best Practices, Process Mapping.
Gerwing, David
Ninety per cent of all new innovations fail.
Ghosn, Carlos
You have to be careful that at the end of the day, by trying to do more in the short-term you don't end up destroying what had been delivering so much result on the mid-term and long-term.
Glenn, John
Even when things go wrong, keeping your cool can help you make it through.
Gore, Al
I don't pass the puck to where they are - I pass the puck to where they're going to be.
Gotlieb, Allan
A diplomat is someone sent abroad to lie for his country.
Grandin, Temple
Because autistic people think in pictures, they may be particularly good at technology. Without the genes that give rise to autism, the world would be full of charming people who sit around the campfire, chatting gaily and empathising mightily but inventing nothing.
Gretzky, Wayne
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Hadfield, Chris
Sky is not the limit, aim for the Universe.
Hale, Grete
Don't run up the white flag when the going gets tough.
In your darkest hours, you can't give up.
Hawking, Stephen
Anyone can think like a genius.
Quiet people have the loudest minds.
Hemingway, Ernest
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
HOF, WIM
The limit is not the sky. The limit is your mind.
Hume, Peter
There is tremendous amount of opposition to any kind of change.
Imitation Game, The
But no one normal could have done this.
I don't care what's normal.
Sometimes it is the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
Innography
TRUST ME: I'M A PATENTOGIST
BACK OFF: I'M A PATENTOGIST
Intuit
Repair the roof when the sun is shining.
Ioannidis, John
The distinction between fraud and visionary is very subtle.
It's Okay to Be Smart (Be Smart)
Stay curious.
James, William
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
jdiazofficial and visualhustles
Remove the label society sticks on you.
Discard the stereotypes, reject the norms.
You are more than a category, more than a box to be ticked.
Celebrate your unique blend of traits, your individuality.
You are a canvas of endless possibilities.
Jemison, Mae C.
Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Jobs, Steve P.
A lot of [what it means to be smart] is the ability to zoom out, like you're in a city and you could look at the whole thing from the 80th floor down at the city. And while other people are trying to figure out how to get from point A to point B reading these stupid little maps, you could just see it in front of you. You can see the whole thing.
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do. That's true for companies and it's true for products.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
Getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.
If you don't ask, you won't get.
I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.
I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year... it's very character-building.
If you keep your eye on the profit, you're going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Let's go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday.
My model for business is the Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other's kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other, and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.
People don't know what they want until you show it to them.
People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.
Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.
Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex; you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.
We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.
When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
You have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does, or else you're gonna make the same connections and you won't be innovative. [É] You might want to think about going to Paris and being a poet for a few years. Or you might want to go to a third-world country - I'd highly advise that. Falling in love with two people at once. Walt Disney took LSD, do you know that?
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Johnson, Samuel
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Johnston, David Lloyd
Innovation is a very broad term, but at its simplest it's doing things better. Usually it means taking an existing idea and crafting it in a certain way that improves a process, an institution, a technology.
Jordan, David Starr
Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
Jurassic Park
Life finds a way.
Kael, Pauline
Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.
Kamprad, Ingvar (IKEA)
Encourage and enthuse, dare to question and have the energy to change and rejuvenate.
Kamen, Dean
I don't know how invention works. In most cases, it's sort of the process of looking at the same thing everybody else looks at and finally seeing something else.
If most people think what you're doing is completely normal, it probably is. Why do it? Everybody else is doing that. Do something else.
If you're not going to change the world, you know, go to sleep, go hibernate.
Life is not about what's done, what's finished. It's not the destination. It's the route. Life is about the journey. It's about where you're going. It's not where you are.
Science is about why; Engineering is about why not.
Scientists and engineers are the superstars of the future.
Kay, Alan
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Keller, Helen
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Kennedy, John Fitzerald
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
Impossible is a state of mind.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Keynes, Randal
In the current era when no scientist is taken seriously without an academic or corporate affiliation, it is salutary to remember that an independent researcher (Darwin, Charles), corresponding with a few like-minded friends, could come up with the biggest idea in biology.
Annie's Box, 2001
Kissinger, Henry
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.
Lifeforms (2023)
Never stop discovering.
Lincoln, Abraham
Things come to those who wait, but only what's left by those who act.
Linkletter, Art
As long as I have a contract, I can't die.
Success is spending your life doing what you really want to do, then having a passion and enthusiasm for it.
The question you should ask is not "how old are you?" but "how are you old?"
Lord Acton
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
Ludwig, Mies van der Rohe
God is in the details.
Less is more.
Luty-Craib, Sandra
Biggest failure is not trying.
MacDonald, Larry
Only 5% of the people are capable of abstract thinking. Do not expect too much.
MacDonald's
Anything is possible when you have a dream.
Machale, Desmond
It takes great genius to spot a very obvious thing and ask a very obvious question.
Mandela, Nelson
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Mandelbrot, Benoit
In my case, creativity covered an unusual, I would say even quite unique, range of situations. Not because I am better. I am not. I am different. I see things which they don't see, and I can do things that they can't do.
Manilow, Barry
Don't give up on your dreams.
Massoud, Mena
Whatever it is that you guys want to do in your life, don't ever let anyone tell you that you cannot do it. Because you can.
Matthews, Terence
Persistence is the single most important word pertaining to success.
McCammon, Roy
If you are one in a million, there are 6000 people just like you.
Local optimisation almost never yields global optimisation.
McLuhan, Marshall
Innovation, to holders of conventional knowledge, is not novelty but annihilation.
Mead, Margaret
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed [citizens] can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Medium
A dogma is born when the solutions are presented without enough original context, and newcomers feel pressured to delegate crucial decisions to an authority.
As the time passes and the context is forgotten, dogma stays. Acolytes form a bubble to protect themselves from fear of what they didn't learn in the past, evaluation of the choices they make in the present and irrelevance of their dogma in the future. What a way to waste everyone's time!
Moore, Sid
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Morrison, Toni
I don't go on vacations. I don't ski. I don't do any of the so-called fun things in life. Writing is what I do for me.
NASA
Failure is Not an Option.
New York Times
DOS Computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use worldwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form.
Nixon, Richard
Always remember. Others may hate you, but the ones that hate you can't win unless you hate them. And then, you destroy yourself!
Nobel, Alfred
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
Contentment is the only real wealth.
Norman, Don
Don't blame yourself when you can't figure out a product. It's designed wrong. It's not your fault!
Nygard, Roger
Who's to say who's normal?
O'Brien, Larry
When you are right, you have to fight.
O'Dea, Frank
Three words express it all: hope, vision, action. Hope is the beginning of vision. But without action, vision is simply a dream.
O'Leary, Kevin
The path to wealth is paved with pain and grief and one closed door after another.
Olympic runner
If I concentrate on the guys beside me too much, I'm going to trip and fall.
Ono, Yoko
You change the world by being yourself.
Onassis, Aristotle
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
Ottawa Citizen
If you believe in something, even if it seems impossible, don't be afraid to try to do it. You may not succeed, but the lessons you will learn from the attempt will steel you for the next challenge and the one after that.
Paracelsus
All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.
Pascal, Blaise
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter.
Pasteur, Louis
Chance favours only the prepared mind.
Patton, George S.
Never tell people "how" to do things. Tell them "what" to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Pauling, Linus Carl
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
Pausch, Randy
A very small number of things in your life are going to mean anything. Shove the other stuff off the boat.
Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment. If things aren't going well, we're going to learn a lot and be able to use it later.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
It's much more important to do the right things adequately than doing the wrong things well.
Time is all we have. And you may find one day that you have less than you think.
Time is more important than money because if you've wasted it, you can never get it back.
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
While specialization has merits, the biggest discoveries tend to come from the unexpected intersections between fields.
Petronius Arbiter, 210 B.C.
We trained hard... But it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralisation.
Picasso, Pablo
Art is a lie that tells the truth.
Good artists copy. Great artists steal.
Planet of the Humans
Less must be the new more.
Polya, G.
Inventor's Paradox: The more ambitious plan may have more chances of success... provided it is not based on a mere pretension but on some vision of the things beyond those immediately present.
Rand, Ayn
An inventor is a man who asks "why?" of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.
Reagan, Ronald
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do, if you don't care who gets the credit.
Redbubble
The universe is made of protons, neutrons, electrons, and morons.
Robbins, Robert D.
Never turn down the person with ideas, thoughts and dreams because that is what creates tomorrow.
Robbins, Tony
No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.
Robinson, Will (Lost in Space)
The impossible happens all the time. Just have to believe it can.
Rockefeller, John D.
If you want to succeed, you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted business.
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
Rodriguez, Luis
Believe (in objective, rational and real terms) in your project, don't surrender to anybody's opinion.
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Great minds discuss ideas.
Average minds discuss events.
Small minds discuss people.
Roth, John
Focus.
Simple Design is Good Design.
Roubtsov, Emma
People leave people, not companies.
Ruth, Babe
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
Rutherford, Ernest
Go home and spend the rest of the time thinking. Those who work too much and think little are not much good.
I am always a believer in simplicity being a simple person myself.
That man is an Euclidean point: position without substance.
The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.
We haven't got the money, so we've got to think!
Sagan, Carl
Arguments from authority carry little weight. In science there are no "authorities", only expert opinion. Do not be intimidated by the experts. Ask questions.
Ockham's Razor: When there are several explanations for the same problem, the simpler explanation is usually the correct one.
Paradox: one must be open to weirdest idea, but must ruthlessly weed out those who don't work (culture, science, technology?).
Sara's Father
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Sánchez Alvarado, Alejandro
Every time they break a rule, they invent something new.
Savage, Adam
"Jack of all trades, master of none" is often better than "master of one".
Savigny, Jimmy
Believe in yourself and what you can do, and not what others say or do to you. When you believe in yourself anything is possible.
Schopenhauer, Arthur
All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self evident.
Shatner, William (at age 87)
There's so much. I've just begun. In my opinion, really, I'm just getting started.
Shaw, George Bernard
But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
You see things; and you say, "Why?"
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.
Shirley, Anne
Tomorrow is another day.
Schuller, Robert (and/or others)
Anything your mind can conceive and believe, you can achieve.
Be a goal-oriented, goal-control person.
Believe and you can achieve.
Desire determines destiny.
Determination (sheer desire to succeed) is far more important than intelligence and talent.
Don't accept anything just because it's the way it should be.
Don't believe anything just because it's written in a book.
Don't wait for your ship to come to it, row out to meet it.
Everything is principle-based.
Goal are simply dreams with deadlines.
Great things happen when you believe in yourself.
History and the future are to be made, not simply inherited.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
If you don't stand for anything, you will fall for anything.
If you have your house in order and principles in place, people will see it.
If you make excuses why you can't succeed in business, you will never succeed because you have the closed the door of opportunity.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
Integrity and Excellence.
Make yourself irreplaceable.
Never give up; Nothing is impossible!
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Only those who dare to take control of their lives ever achieve greatness.
People who are open deserve progress, who aren't don't.
Potentialise (believe in you), Prioritise (seize the moment), Possibilitise, Patronise.
Set goals, and the goals will control your destiny.
Steal an idea from one person, and you're plagiarizing; steal ideas from 100 people, and you have a doctoral thesis.
The only way to treat everyone the same is by treating each individual differently.
There is no greatness without the passion to be great.
Think big or don't get out of bed.
When you ASS-U-ME, you make an ASS of U and then of ME!
Where there is a change, there is an opportunity.
Where there's a will, there's a way!
Without dreams, what would this world be?
Yesterday is a memory; tomorrow is a vision; today is shit.
You are accountable for what you do and no one else is accountable.
You can get everything in life you want, if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
You can succeed if you believe in yourself!
You don't have to do the way it has been done!
You have to believe in yourself!
Your Brain is Your Limit!
Schumacher, E.F.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Simon & Garfunkel
I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
Sonnenfeldt, Richard W.
Big decisions can be made on the basis of small misunderstandings.
Spiner, Brent
I've never met anyone, Star Trek fan or otherwise, who wasn't peculiar. We're all peculiar.
Star Trek: Discovery
Never stop seeking what seems unobtainable.
Sculptures are crystallized spirituality.
Where I come from, we keep our promises.
Star Trek: Enterprise
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Teach him to fish, and he eats for a lifetime.
Infinite diversity in infinite combinations.
Never stop seeking what seems unobtainable.
With proper discipline, anything is possible.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
You (Una Chin-Riley) defy every stereotype the Federation has about Illyrians. You're an example to them. And to all of us.
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Every moment of pleasure in life has to be purchased by an equal amount of pain.
This is the 24th century. Material needs no longer exist. The challenge, Mr. Offenhouse, is to improve yourself. To enrich yourself. Enjoy it. Anything is possible. (Picard, Jean-Luc)
You're a culture of one (Mr. Data). Which is no less valid than a culture of one billion. (Picard, Jean-Luc)
Star Trek: The Original Series
Live long and prosper. (Vulcan)
Straus, Josef
Expand the boundaries - be the leader.
Don't get yourself boxed in; don't take no for answers; always find something beyond where you are and come up with new things.
If you're climbing a mountain, go to the top - don't stop in the middle.
Sturgeon's Maxim
90 percent of *everything* is crap.
Sunatori, Évelyne
Do what you can do, but never do less.
Don't live if you are not ready to die.
Improvement is always motivating.
There is a lot worse than death.
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
Sunatori, François
Geniuses are in the imagination of the ignorant.
Observe: first and foremost, learn: so that you can observe more, automate: so that you can observe and learn more.
Sunatori, Go Simon
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Szent-Györgyi, Albert
Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
Research is to see what everybody has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Tao of YouTube
choose the simplest solution possible with the loosest guarantees that are practical. The reason you want all these things is you need flexibility to solve problems. The minute you over specify something you paint yourself into a corner. You aren't going to make those guarantees. Your problem becomes automatically more complex when you try and make all those guarantees. You leave yourself no way out.
Tauro, Walter
If you don't take a chance, nothing ever happens.
TED-Ed: The philosophy of cynicism
All have one thing in common: they questioned the status quo. And that's an example we can still follow: not to blindly follow conventional or majority views, but to think hard about what is truly valuable. Thinking critically about our institutions and way of life is more important than ever.
Teller, Ian
To get success, you should just keep failing until you succeed. The only people who really fail are those who don't try.
Tesla, Nikola
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Thirsk, Bob
Do good work, pay attention, be thorough.
Thomas, Dave
If you look back on a life where you followed your dreams, you'll most likely have no regrets. Remember it's not the things you do in life that you regret. It's the things that you didn't do.
Thorne, Kip
I struggled for the first year and a half as an undergraduate at Caltech where I spent most of my subsequent career, but I developed my own ways of learning things. Keeping records of what I was learning, working things out in my own way, and notebooks and so forth, that enabled me to achieve despite having a slow working mind.
So I advise students, you find your own way, and you have to experiment mastering material and your own directions that you can be successful in and everybody is different. We can all succeed in different ways.
Thunberg, Greta
Depression is something that often people who are different suffer from, either because they work too much or because they are being bullied because they are different or just because they don't feel right in this society - that they feel everything is meaningless. That is often the people who think a bit outside the box and who can see things from a different, new perspective.
I have Asperger's syndrome and that means I'm sometimes a bit different from the norm. And - given the right circumstances - being different is a superpower. It makes you think differently. And especially in such a big crisis like this one we need to think outside the box. We need to think outside our current system, that we need people that think outside the box and who aren't like everyone else.
We need these people, especially now, when we need to change things and we can't see it just from where we are. We need to see it from a bigger perspective and from outside our current systems. That's why people who are different are so necessary: because they contribute so much. Therefore we need to really look after the people who are different and who may not be heard. We need to listen to those and to look after each other.
TidBITS
If you don't have something constructive to say, don't say anything at all.
Tre Stelle
You live by your own rules. When the world zig, you zag. You march to the beat of your own drum.
Trotter, Wilfred
The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein, and resists it with a similar energy. It would not perhaps be too fanciful to say that a new idea is the most quickly acting antigen known to science. It we watch ourselves honestly, we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated. I have no doubt that that last sentence has already met with repudiation - and shown how quickly the defence mechanism gets to work.
Trudeau, Pierre Elliot
Against the Current.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Reason over Passion.
Towards a Just Society.
With a Bang, Not a Whisper.
Turok, Neil
What does it take to be an innovator? As a handy mnemonic, I use four Cs: curiosity, courage, creativity, and collaboration.
Twain, Mark
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one, instead.
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.
Tzu, Lao
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Nature does not hurry. Yet everything is accomplished.
The journey of 1 000 miles begins with one step.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Unknown
A lie told often enough often becomes the truth.
All I need to know about life I learned from Star Trek.
Crisis always means opportunity.
Don't follow the herd.
Good Things Come to Those Who Wait...
If you give a man a fish, you have fed him for today, whereas if you teach a man to fish, you have fed him for a lifetime.
If you see one cockroach, there are a thousand more you can't see.
Make it idiot-proof, and someone will make a better idiot.
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.
Never underestimate the power of large groups of stupid people.
Ne umquam respexeris. (Never look back.)
One test is worth 1 000 expert opinions!
Sometimes when you win you lose. Sometimes when you lose you win.
Success is not a destination - it's a journey.
The greatest risk is to take no risk.
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He/She may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he/she simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.
Those who use crystal balls end up with broken glass.
To the optimist, the glass is half full.
To the pessimist, the glass is half empty.
To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
Today, knowledge is not power, knowledge about knowledge is power!
Write an idiot-proof program and the world will build a better idiot.
VandeHei, Jim
How to Write Less but Say More: Use as few words as few sentences as humanly possible so that that person gets the message you want and you both get the time back that you deserve.
Violet
We make our choices, then our choices make us.
Von Braun, Wernher
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
Walton, Sam
Swim upstream.
Go the other way.
Ignore the conventional wisdom.
If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a chance you can find your niche by going in the exact opposite direction.
Ward, William Arthur
The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
Watson, Thomas
If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.
Wheaton, Wil
Star Trek teaches us that we can create and sustain a world where everyone works together, where everyone has equal access and equal opportunity.
Wilson, Chip
Metric-driven people are nervous of creative people. Creative people can't prove the future, but metric people can prove the past.
Winfrey, Oprah
Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life because you become what you believe.
Hold the highest, grandest vision for yourself.
I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.
Whatever you fear most has no power.
It is your fear that has the power.
Wozniak, Steve
When you think about it, every time they turned me down, it was fortunate for the world and it was fortunate for myself.
X-Files
Trust No 1
Xerox
Kids are more capable of fresh, less inhibited idea generation without the imposition of traditional boundaries.
Yoda
Impossible to see, the future is.
Zend, Robert
A misfit is a human being who tries to remain human despite the surrounding pressure called mankind.
