Tom Peters

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Arthur C. Clarke

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.

Representative Michael Capuano, to CEOs of the Big Three Automobile Manufacturers

My fear is that you're going to take this money and continue the same stupid decisions you've made for 25 years.

Mark Twain

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.

Jack Handey

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.

William Ockham

Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.

Joseph Addison

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Joan Didion

Perhaps the Las Vegas wedding industry achieved its peak operational efficiency between 9 p.m. and midnight of August 26, 1965, an otherwise unremarkable Thursday that happened to be, by presidential order, the last day on which anyone could improve his draft status merely by getting married.

Gilda Radner

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

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Sarah Palin

Someone called me a redneck woman once. You know what I said back? Thank-you very much.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Rene Descartes

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Winston Churchill

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.