So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Stephen Covey

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.

Jimmy Carter

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience

George Washington

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Sir Walter Scott

The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.

Eric Schmidt

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.

Charles W. Eliot

Business is not just doing deals business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Ross Perot

Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hermann Hesse

If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.

Rudy Rucker

Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

Friedrich Engels

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Michel de Montaigne

Debt is the worst poverty.

Thomas Fuller