Burnham’s frequent admonition: Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood. Burnham
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
The intelligence we will create from the reverse-engineering of the brain will have access to its own source code and will be able to rapidly improve itself in an accelerating iterative design cycle....
My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be.
The highway of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.
Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
The elegance under pressure is the result of fearlessness.
The best thing you can wear is self confidence.
Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great.
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...