"Free will.. it's a bitch"

--Al Pacino, The Devil's Advocate movie.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

-- Barrack Obama

It's easy to make a buck;it's a lot tougher to make a difference

-- Tom Brokaw, CNBC Talkshow host.

John Keats

"at once it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason"

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced; even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

William Blake, Proverbs of Hell

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

--Learnado da Vinci.

Buncha'em!

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. 

Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. " --Goethe

"Experience is the only source of knowledge" - A Einstein

"Doing fundamental analysis can lead to non-standard choices." - On choosing Lisp.

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. 

-Georges Bidault 

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread. 

-Georges Bernanos

ou must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.  ~Charles C. Noble

Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.  ~Anthony J. D'Angel

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.  ~Thomas Alva Edison

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.  ~William Shakespeare, Othello

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.  ~Oscar Wilde

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it's the only one you have.

EMIL'E CHARTIER

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas. 

Alfred North Whitehead

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. 

Benjamin Franklin

All movements go too far. 

Bertrand Russell

If I love you, what business is it of yours?  ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.  ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.  ~Leo Tolstoy

The love game is never called off on account of darkness.  ~Tom Masson

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted. 

~Friedrich Nietzsche

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. 

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.”

 Swedish Proverb quotes

If I have made myself clear, you must have misunderstood me. 

    - Alan Greenspan

Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it 

    - Richard Feynman

 Money will buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.

- Richard Friedman

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

- Lawrence Durrell

"You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do."  -- Liz Smith

"If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don't, you will find an excuse." --Anonymous

"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust." 

-- Samuel Johnson

The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh. --Andre Gide

A blind admiration would have been precarious; a deserved admiration would have been a responsibility; an undeserved admiration was precious.

- Ayn Rand, 1936

"We do not see things as they are; we see things as we are." -- Talmud

Reality

Being a visionary is trivial. Being a CEO is hard. All you have to do to be a visionary is to give the old 'MIPS to the moon' speech. That's different from being a CEO of a company and seeing where the profits are.

--Bill Gates, Wall Street Journal July 29,1993, p. 131