We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.

Steve Wozniak

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Roger von Oech

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.

John Henry Newman

Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.

Johnny Mathis

If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

Jim Jarmusch

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

Soren Kierkegaard

I've always been a guy who's pretty supportive, its just my nature, so I came in to the situation with the attitude that I wanted to support Johnny and make it work.

Rick Derringer

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Albert Camus

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Dorothy Parker

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Steve Young

If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.

Peter Fonda

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

Jimmy Carter