Sigmund Freud
“The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.”
Naguib Mahfouz (Egyptian novelist and winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature)
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."
Francis Vincent Frank Zappa Jr.
"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen and that is the basic building block of the universe."
George Washington Carver (1864-1943)
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
Mahatma Gandhi
“To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
Alvin Toffler
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”
Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
Arthur C. Clarke, Referred to as Clarke's Third Law, his most widely published and best know 'law,' published in a 1973 revision of his compendium of essays, Profiles of the Future.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce (1881 - 1911)
Litigant, noun, a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
Margaret Thatcher
"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money."
Abraham Lincoln, 1864
“It has indeed been a trying hour for the Republic; but I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.”
Samuel Goldwyn
"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on."
W. Somerset Maugham
"It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."
Ken Olson, President, Chairman and Founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"Well done is better than well said."
Woody Allen
"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly."
Larry Ellison, CEO, Oracle
"The privacy you're concerned about is largely an illusion. All you have to give up is your illusions, not any of your privacy.“
George Bernard Shaw and Winston Churchill
George Bernard Shaw sent a note to Winston Churchill saying "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one."
To which Sir Winston replied "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one."
E. B. White
"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
James Bovard, "Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty" (1994)
"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1932
“If the process of concentration goes on at the same rate, at the end of another century we shall have all of American industry controlled by a dozen corporations and run by perhaps a hundred men. Put plainly, we are steering a steady course toward economic oligarchy, if we are not there already.”
Margaret Mead (1901-1978)
“If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.”
Helen Keller (1880-1968)
“Is there anything worse than being blind? Yes, a man with sight and no vision.”
Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens]
“Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
Wish I'd Said That (NOT!)
“The worst of the impact on the financial-services industry is behind us.” Richard Fuld, CEO of Lehman Brothers, April 15, 2008, after the Annual Meeting.
Clarence Darrow
“True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.”
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
“Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population."
John Adams (1735-1826)
“I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.”
"Peanuts," Charles Schulz
“Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, ‘Where have I gone wrong?’ Then a voice says to me, ‘This is going to take more than one night.’”
Michael Jordan
“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t’ turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
Winston Churchill (British Prime Minister)
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
Robert Jackson (U.S. Attorney General, 1940; later, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court)
“Therein is the most dangerous power of the prosecutor: that he will pick people that he thinks he should get, rather than pick cases that need to be prosecuted. With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone.”
