People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.
Dean Kamen
Quotes
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles
Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
Marlon Brando
The empires of the future will be empires of the mind.
Winston Churchill
In the dawning knowledge age, how well we live will depend on how well we learn.
Ray Hnatyshyn, 1991
Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
Paul Valéry
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T.S. Elliot
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
The mind is its own place and in itself can make a hell of heaven or a heaven of hell.
Milton, Paradise Lost
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
Michel de Montaigne