“Always Remember That You Are Unique. Just Like Everyone Else.” – unknown

“There’s an old saying about those who forget history. I don’t remember it, but it’s good.” – Stephen Colbert

“The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children. But there are plenty of the well-endowed ones too, thank God, and I am firmly convinced that most of them live quiet, unregarded lives.”- Albert Einstein

“A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.” – Albert Einstein

“The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.” – John Kenneth Galbraith

“Dance like it hurts,/ Love like you need money,/ Work when people are watching.” – Scott Adams

“I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.” – Thomas Jefferson

“The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.”
- David Friedman

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.” – Aldous Huxley

Judge Roland Williams said he didn’t see “any real civilised justification for (poker machines) other than a means of indirectly taxing the people who are too stupid to work out what they are doing”.

“A man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.” - Thomas Hardy

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” – Robert A. Heinlein

“So you can’t go out and ask people, you know, what the next big [thing.] There’s a great quote by Henry Ford, right? He said, ‘If I’d have asked my customers what they wanted, they would have told me “A faster horse.” ‘ ” – Steve Jobs talking about iTunes development.

“The music’s not in the piano,” Alan Kay said. “If it was, we’d have to let it vote.”

“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein.


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