I'm sorry you are wiser, I sorry you are taller; I liked you better foolish and I liked you better smaller.

If we're given a number of circumstances to deal with, the brain goes into this mode of trying to find a solution, and it's amazing how good we are at it.

Jon Brion

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Arthur C. Clarke

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Henry David Thoreau

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.

Sean Penn

If you can approach the world

Daniel C. Dennett, Breaking the

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

Heinrich Heine

My goals over the decade include to develop new drugs to treat intractable diseases by using iPS cell technology and to conduct clinical trials using it on a few patients with Parkinson's diseases, diabetes or blood diseases.

Shinya Yamanaka

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change.

Thomas J. Peters

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

Ayn Rand

I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American.

Judy Holliday

I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?

Colin Hay

If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.

Ralph Merkle