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Here are a good couple of quotes I've picked up over time. Enjoy!
See also the technology quotes and the fun quotes
Any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
-- n.A.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake
when you make it again.
-- F.P. Jones
I wish he would explain his explanation.
-- Lord Byron
I don't know who discovered water, but it sure was no fish.
-- McLuhan
The tree of research must from time to time be refreshed with the blood of
bean counters.
-- Alan Kay
Progress lives from the exchange of knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein
No problem can be solved in the same consciousness that created it.
-- Albert Einstein
Knowledge is a rare thing -- you gain by giving it away.
-- Ivan Sutherland
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-- Benjamin Franklin.
A sex-symbol becomes a thing, I just hate being a thing. But if I'm going to
be a symbol of something I'd rather have it [be] sex than some other things
we've got symbols of.
-- Marilyn Monroe
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- ???
Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible
-- Miguel de Unamuno
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
-- Nikola Tesla
What made Wells a true visionary was not so much his ability to predict so many of the technological marvels of the late twentieth century, but his prescience in setting them in a world where men were still wearing neckties.
-- Geoffrey Nunberg
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
-- Howard Hathaway Aiken
In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.
-- Steve Jobs
We are very careful about what features we add because we can't take them away.
-- Steve Jobs
If you want to walk in somebody else's shoes you first have to remove your own shoes.
-- unknown