Favorite Quotes

Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.
- A. Saint-Exupery

The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.
- Unknown

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain

Your material possessions are the shadows of the the things you lost to acquire them.
- Douglas Adams

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. Sing like nobody's listening. Live like it's Heaven on Earth.
- Unknown

Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
- Dalai Lama

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
- Winston Churchill

But what ... is it good for?
- Engineer at IBM's Advanced Computing Systems Division, commenting on the microchip, 1968

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943

The 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.
- Western Union Internal Memo, 1876

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?
- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his request for investment in the radio in 1920

There is no future in the idea of a personal computer.
- Hewlett Packard executive to Stephen Wozniak, 1976 (Stephen later co-founds Apple Computer)

Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor