Quotes

"The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man."

– Richard Feynman

"Your twenties are always an apprenticeship, but you don't always know what for."

– Jan Houtema

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

– Mark Twain

"The best way to do something 'lean' is to gather a tight group of people, give them very little money, and very little time."

– Bob Klein, chief engineer of the F-14 program

"Focusing is about saying no."

– Steve Jobs

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

– Sherlock Holmes

"When the enemy is making a false movement we must take good care not to interrupt him."

– Napoleon

"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field."

– Niels Bohr

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka' but 'That's funny...'"

– Isaac Asimov

"People who can't laugh at themselves will always be outwitted by people who can."

– T. K. Coleman

"Lies are often much more plausible, more appealing to reason, than reality, since the liar has the great advantage of knowing beforehand what the audience wishes or expects to hear."

– Hannah Arendt

"If you start a war, you don’t get to choose how it ends."

– Shashank Joshi

"If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking."

– Leslie Lamport

"The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act."

– Tara Ploughman

"Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

– Alan Kay