The cosmical importance of this conclusion is profound and the possibilities it opens for the future very remarkable, greater in fact than any suggested before by science in the whole history of the human race.

Customers don't know what they want. There's plenty of good psychology research that shows that people are not able to accurately predict how they would behave in the future. So asking them, 'Would you buy my product if it had these three features?' or 'How would you react if we changed our product this way?' is a waste of time. They don't know.

Eric Ries

The habit of analysis, the ability to get under the surface of things and at the vital essentials, gives a man a tremendous advantage.

Anon., from The Handbook of Indu

Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.

Carly Fiorina

Yeah, romantic comedies are the hardest movies to make. Maybe one works a year.

Dylan McDermott

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Oscar Wilde

Someone is always going to try to knock you down and take your place. It is up to you to fight for what you want.

Teresa Mummert

The space industry is developing and delivering benefits that tie into our immediate needs and priorities here on Earth-for example, medical and materials research, and satellite communications.

Marc Garneau

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.

George Saunders

I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

Adam Carolla

Trivial things do matter... more people are killed each year by the bite of mosquitoes than are stepped upon by charging elephants.

Source Unknown

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

Aristotle

I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the reality of that technology being available to almost any country that seeks to pursue it? And what conditions do you put in place?

Robert M. Gates