When you awaken to what I call the Authentic Self, which is the spiritual or evolutionary impulse, what begins to emerge is the dawning recognition of the fact that each one of us, at our highest level, is that Authentic Self, which is actually the same energy and intelligence that originally inspired the entire creative process. You begin to intuit and feel directly connected to the very impulse that initiated the whole event fourteen billion years ago and is driving it right now.

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

Warren G. Bennis

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

Tim Bishop

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

Calvin Trillin

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus

I was an ugly kid. I worked in a pet store. People kept asking how big I get.

Rodney Dangerfield

Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.

Dennis Miller

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Thomas Carlyle

The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.

Henry Miller

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

Henry David Thoreau

If the truth is there, bad writing won't hurt it !

Alfred Adler

I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.

Jaron Lanier

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

Wynton Marsalis