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Achievement
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
- Alexis De Tocqueville
It's only those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work. (from The Alchemist)
- Paul Coelho
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. (written by Eliot appearing in a book of poems by Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus, Black Sun Press, Paris: 1931)
- T.S. Eliot
Business
We need a leader to tell us: Who, precisely, do we serve? What is our core strength? Of the many things we can measure in our business, which one measure of success should we focus on? And, what specific actions can we take right now to improve our business?
- Marcus Buckingham
How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.
- Albert Einstein
Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and abilities were used in a way that served others. You're in business to spread love. Your screenplay should spread love. Your hair salon should spread love. Your agency should spread love. Your life should spread love. The key to a successful career is realising that it's not separate from the rest of your life, but is rather an extension of your most basic self. And your most basic self is love
- Marianne Williamson
Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.
- Willa Cather
Debt
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
- Samuel Butler
I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.
- Thomas Jefferson
Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
- Charles Dickens
To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.
- Fredrich August von Hayek
Geek
If you want a language that tries to lock up all the sharp objects and fire-making implements, use Pascal or Ada: the Nerf languages, harmless fun for children of all ages, and they won't mar the furniture
Some things Man was never meant to know. For everything else, there’s Google.
I'm tempted to buy the slashdot staff a grammar checker. What do they do for 40 hours a week?
I'm sorry for the double slash (Tim Berners-Lee in a Panel Discussion, WWW7, Brisbane, 1998)
Technology
The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all his customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place.
- Douglas Adams
The world isn't run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money. It's run by little ones and zeroes, little bits of data. It's all just electrons.
- Cosmo
, Sneakers
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents
, 1899
We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
- Robert Wilensky
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