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Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.: Bill Gates (1955 - ), Business @ The Speed of Thought
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
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A life lived in chaos is an impossibility...: Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - )
If you believe everything you read, better not read.: Japanese Proverb
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The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.: Joe Martin, Porterfield
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Discours en vers sur l'homme, 1737
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Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.: Unknown, The Ladies Repository, September 1874
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Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.: Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )
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It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.: Neil Gaiman, Sandman
I don’t know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road I’ve traveled to get here is like those Interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like you’re not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where you’re going and realize that you’ve been traveling for a long time.: Wil Wheaton, WIL WHEATON dot NET, 12-16-2013
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The wisest men follow their own direction.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
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Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.: Brian Eno, Wired 1/99, p. 176
Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Years ago my mother said to me, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.' For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.: Mary Chase (1887 - 1973), Elwood P. Dowd (Jimmy Stewart) in "Harvey", 1950
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.: Bella Abzug (1920 - )
I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say.: Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.: Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), What the Dead Men Say, 1954
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The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters the reader will have strong feelings for or against. It is not finding a setting which will take the reader to a place he or she as never been. It is not the research, whether in fiction or non-fiction. The most difficult task facing a writer is to find the voice in which to tell the story.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
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Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.: Bill Nye, Interview with Wired.com, April 2005
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