The way you want to respond is to ask a question: Is this technology directly relevant to our hedgehog concept? If the answer is YES, then we want to become pioneers, not in the technology, but in the application of that technology specifically linked to our hedgehog concept.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

Rabindranath Tagore

I have read your book and much like it.

Moses Hadas

The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.

Dirk Bogarde

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

Frances E. Willard

A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one your enemy.

Proverb

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Greek Proverb

My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick.

Mickey Spillane

The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface.

Aldous Huxley

[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Jane Austen

People expect a certain reaction from a business and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold.

Richard Thalheimer

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second, more personal and important, from himself.

Edward Gibbon

No possible future government in Kabul can be worse than the Taliban, and no thinkable future government would allow the level of Al Qaeda gangsterism to recur. So the outcome is proportionate and congruent with international principles of self-defense.

Christopher Hitchens