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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Wisdom is the ability to use knowledge so as to meet successfully the emergencies of life. Men may acquire knowledge, but wisdom is a direct gift from God.
- Bob Jones
Everything that I've learned about computers at MIT I have boiled down into three principles- Unix: You think it won't work, but if you find the right wizard, they can make it work. Macintosh: You think it will work, but it won't. PC/Windows: You think it won't work, and it won't.
- Philip Greenspun
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, DEC President
, 1977
One hundred years from now it will not matter what your bank account was, the sort of house you lived in, or the kind of car you drove; but the world may be different because you were important in the life of a child.
Sometimes it takes looking through the haze of campfire smoke to see the world clearly.
Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?
- Groucho Marx
Don’t look now, but there’s one man too many in this room, and I think it’s you.
- Groucho Marx
, Duck Soup
, 1933
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.
- Ernest Hemingway
To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.
- Sir William Osler
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership.
- Theodore Harold White
What you cannot enforce / Do not command.
- Sophocles
Don't try to become great; be great now, and discover that excellence is a reward you don't need others to confirm.
- Guy Finley
, Freedom From the Ties That Bind.
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
- Marcus Garvey
Time and thinking tame the strongest grief.
- English proverb
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
- Goethe
I didn't want to work for a commercial Linux venture because I didn't want to get pressurized into doing something I didn't want to do.
- Linus Torvalds
root:> Sorry, you entered the wrong password, the correct password is 'a_49qwXk'
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance
- Dale Carnegie
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey
He loves his country best who strives to make it best.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
- Eric Hoffer
We need a leader to tell us: Who, precisely, do we serve? What is our core strength? Of the many things we can measure in our business, which one measure of success should we focus on? And, what specific actions can we take right now to improve our business?
- Marcus Buckingham
...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.
- Theodore Roosevelt
We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.
- T.S. Eliot
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
- Thomas H. Huxley
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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