When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

Naveen Jain

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Steve Jobs

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Stanislaw Lec

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Albert Camus

The surprising thing is that I was not funny in high school. I was always jealous of the funny kids because they always got the girls. I couldn't tell a joke to save my life.

Seann William Scott

The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar, particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England.

John Stuart Mill

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

Oscar Wilde

Of all the infirmities we have, the most savage is to despise our being.

Michel de Montaigne

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

Bernard Baruch

What wise or stupid thing can man conceive That was not thought of in ages long ago?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle

Abraham Lincoln