"Don’t cling to a mistake because you spent so much time making it."

-- Aubrey de Grey

"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."

-- Henry Van Dyke

"ǝʌıʇɔǝdsɹǝd ɹnoʎ ǝƃuɐɥɔ"

-- Maurits Cornelis Escher

“The trouble with quotes on the internet is that it’s difficult to discern whether or not they are genuine.”

-- Abraham Lincoln

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”

-- Steinbeck (maybe)

"When desperation has disposable income, market opportunities abound."

-- E.L. Kersten, Ph.D.

"Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things."

-- Amelia Earhart

"It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it"

-- George Carlin

"The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made."

-- Jean Giraudoux

"Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior"

-- Dee Hock, founder of Visa

"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him."

-- Booker T. Washington

"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Glorification of wealth, power and beauty beget crime, envy and shame"

-- from Tao Te Ching

"Languages are not about what they make possible, but about what they make beautiful"

-- Scott Davis

"Well informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value"

-- Boston Post, 1865

"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home"

-- Ken Olsen, President of DEC, 1997

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work"

-- Thomas Edison

"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology"

-- Carl Sagan

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning"

-- Rich Cook

"There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult"

-- C. Hoare

"News is old things happening to new people"

-- Malcolm Muggeridge

"Good judgement comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgement"

-- Will Rogers

"Go for it..." --