Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn. I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

Rudy Rucker

I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one who poverty bothers.

Ernest Hemingway

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

Marcus Garvey

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

Bono

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

Woodrow Wilson

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

William Hazlitt

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency --the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Allan Bloom

You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it.

Nils-Axel Morner

No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.

Nicholas Boileau

BetweenOur birth and death we may touch understandingAs a moth brushes a window with its wing.

Christopher Fry, The Boy with a

I have come to believe that our innate purpose is nothing more than to be the greatest version of ourselves. It is a process of refinement, improvement, and enhancement. When you are aligned with this process and living your purpose, you have the potential of creating something amazing.

Steve Maraboli

Doesn't make much sense to me to spray everything with chemicals when you're trying to clean.

James Dye