A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a
life spent doing nothing. -George Bernard Shaw
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a
'C,' the idea must be feasible. -A Yale University management professor in
response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service.
(Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. -Thomas Watson,
Chairman of IBM, 1943.
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-Ken Olsen, President of DEC (Digital Equipment Corp.),
World Future Society Convention, 1977.
Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. -Irving Fisher,
Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together
is success. - Henry Ford, Edward Everett Hale
Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently. - Henry
Ford
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be
taken too seriously. -Samuel Butler
In the first place, God created idiots. That was for practice. Then he made
school boards. -Mark Twain
Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each
other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH. -Rick Bayan
A man there was, tho' some did count him mad / The more he cast away,
the
more he had. -John Bunyan, preacher (1628-1688) [Pilgrim's Progress]
Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. - Bertrand Russell
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions
by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau