But rainbows were made of faint and fragile gossamer—and gold weighed a ton—and since the world began, gold was the reason to do most anything.
People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Nobody but you have to believe in your dreams to make them a reality.
A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem....
It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap...
Yesterday i was clever so i took the glory for me. Today HE makes me wise so i give the glory to HIM.
The nights were mainly made for saying things you can't say tomorrow day.
Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.
Education is the best provision for old age.
Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.