Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.

So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers.

Thomas Dolby

I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.

Francis Ford Coppola

The Bible is a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology

Mark Twain

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.

William Shakespeare

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

Dean Kamen

A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.

Aldous Huxley

God hides the fires of hell within paradise.

Paulo Coelho

People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.

Paulo Coelho

You know, the greatest epitaph in the country is here in Arizona. Its in Tombstone, Ariz. , and this epitaph says, Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest. I think that is the greatest epitaph a man could have. Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do; and that is what your President has been trying to do for the last 3 years for this country.

Harry S Truman

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

James Russell Lowell

It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.

Edgar Allan Poe