There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.

Georges Clemenceau

From now on, I'll connect the dotsmy own way.

Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

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Ross Dawson Blog

If you don't make mistakes,you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

F. Wikzek

You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.

You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.

Morpheus to Neo in The Matrix

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

E. F. Schumacher

Modern man is a prisonerwho thinks he is freebecause he refrainsfrom touching the walls of his dungeon.

Nicols Gmez Dvila

There is nothing so uselessas doing efficientlythat which should not be done at all.

Peter Drucker

Only dead fish swim with the stream.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Your father lost his job to a robot, right? ...You probably would have banned the Internet to keep the libraries open.

Lance Robertson to Detective Del Spooner in I Robot

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?

Frank Scully

What is a collectionin an age of abundance?

Rivkah Sass

Our mission is toorganize the worlds information.

Susan Wojcicki, Googles Director of Product Management

The absence of alternativesclears the mind marvelously.

Henry Kissinger

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Nelson Mandela

Your future depends upon many things, but mostly on you.

Frank Tyger

A coupla months in the laboratory can save a coupla hours in the library

Westheimers Discovery

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information resources that might consume it.

Herbert Alexander Simon

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

Nothing is more dangerousthan an ideawhen it is the only one you have.

Emile Chartier

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Franklin P. Jones

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.

Mario Andretti

Not all those who wanderare lost.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Every society honors its live conformists, and its dead troublemakers.

Mignon McLaughlin

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Time sneaks up on youlike a windshield on a bug.

Jon Lithgow

If you are not criticized,you are not doing much.

Donald Rumsfeld

One dog barks at something,and a hundred bark at the bark.

Chinese Proverb

Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to followyour heart and intuition.

Steve Jobs

Never be afraidto try something new.Remember,amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic.

Unknown

The conventional viewserves to protect usfrom thepainful job of thinking.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Even if the voices are not real, they have some good ideas.

Unknown

Beaten paths are for beaten people and it's not that life is too short it's just that we're dead for such a long time.

Unknown

Too many of us arenot living our dreamsbecause we areliving our fears.

Les Brown

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities,and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Harry S Truman

Before you can break out of prison, you must first realize you're locked up.

Unknown

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip, and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.

Unknown

One who says it can't be done should not interrupt the person doing it.

Chinese Proverb

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growingtaking risks,breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.

Mary Lou Cook

Never say, "oops." Always say, "Ah, interesting."

Unknown

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Rosa Luxemburg

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Rosa Luxemburg

Don't think you're on the right road just because its a well-beaten path.

Unknown

Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.

Walter Russell

When one doors closes,another door opens.

Helen Keller

The most damaging phrasein the language is:"It's always been done that way."

Grace Hopper

Whether you think you can,or think you cannot,you are right.

Henry Ford

I have not failed.I've just found10,000 waysthat won't work.

Thomas Edison

When you lose,don't lose the lesson.

Dalai Lama

If we dont take care of the customer, maybe theyllstop bugging us.

Despair.com poster

If we dontchange the direction were going, were likely toend up where were headed.

Chinese proverb

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Abraham Lincoln

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

Edward De Bono

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorablebut more usefulthan a life spentin doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.

Unknown

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realizewhat a burden it was.

Margaret Mitchell