For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

A baby is born with a need to be loved and never outgrows it.

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.

Can you top this?

A scholar's ink lasts longer than a martyr's blood.

One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

The mind is like a parachute, it's no good unless it's open!

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And, because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change until we notice how our failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand-- Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another.

In ancient times, the sacred Plough employ'd The Kings and awful Fathers of mankind: And some, with whom compared your insect-tribes Are but the beings of a summer's day, Have held the Scale of Empire, ruled the Storm Of mighty War, then, with victorious hand, Disdaining little delicacies, seized The Plough, and, greatly independent, scorned All the vile stores corruption can bestow.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Yet I argue not Again Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of right or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.

Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose, That well-known name awakens all my woes.

Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity.

It is one of the incidents of the profession.

Hold your horses!

Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently.