While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became whoever I thought people wanted me to be. I'd say yes when I wanted to say no, and I even wore a few dresses.

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

Anthony Hopkins

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.

Iain Banks

My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.

Sara Blakely

My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.

Michel de Montaigne

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

Anita Brookner

I was worth about over a million dollars when I was twenty-three and over ten million dollars when I was twenty-four, and over a hundred million dollars when I was twenty-five and it wasn't that important because I never did it for the money.

Steve Jobs

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

Samuel Butler

Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

George Bernard Shaw

It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.

Dane Cook

No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.

Archibald Wavell, "London Times"

Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science...

Donald Knuth