And 'speak truth unto power'? What does this mean? It means giving your best advice to superiors based on the best information available and objective analysis even when you know it may not be music to their ears.

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

Source Unknown

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.

Richard H. Tawney

The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.

Henry Mayhew

The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.

Sigmund Freud

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

Rem Koolhaas

Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile.

Emma Bonino

We may run, walk, stumble. drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.

Gloria Gaither

Time is bunk.

Douglas Adams

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Robert Frost

One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it.

Herbert Simon

And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.

Orson Scott Card

He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future.

Walter Benjamin