"The secret to happiness is freedom. And the secret to freedom is courage." -- Thucydides
"The only true law is that which leads to freedom. There is no other." -- *Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
"If people aren't laughing at your dreams, your dreams aren't big enough." -- Grayson Marshall
"Fear is temporary. Regret is permanent" -- Dan Skinner
"If you wish to make apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." -- Carl Sagan
"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old but on building the new." -- Dan Millman
"Your big opportunity may be right where you are now." -- Napoleon Hill
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." -- Mahatma Gandhi
"A ship in harbor is safe — but that is not what ships are built for." -- John A. Shedd
"You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over." -- Richard Branson
"Any person capable of angering you becomes your master. They can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by them." -- Epictetus
"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor." -- Elon Musk
"Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow." -- Oscar Wilde
"Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it because you're not really looking. You don't really want to know the secret... You want to be fooled."
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." -- Alan Kay (1971) at a 1971 meeting of PARC
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken
"The world is moving so fast that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it." -- Elbert Hubbard
"A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at." -- Bruce Lee
"Anyone who stops learning is old." -- Henry Ford
"Create something today even if it sucks."
"Ask how something can be done rather than say it can't be done." -- Bo Bennett
"The most important inventions come from lots of failure." -- Jeff Bezos
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." -- Walt Disney
"I am strong because I've been weak. I am fearless because I've been afraid. I am wise because I've been foolish."
"You shouldn't bite more than you can chew."
"Don't put all your eggs in one basket."
"I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended." -- Linus Torvalds
"A goal without a plan is only a wish."
"If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else." -- Marvin Gaye
"Success is a poor teacher."
"…ὁ δὲ Σωκράτης βέλτιον, οὐκ Ἀθηναῖος οὐδ᾽ Ἕλλην ἀλλὰ κόσμιος εἶναι φήσας…"
"Repetitio est mater studiorum"
"Everything around you that you call life was made up by people, and you can change it." -- Steve Jobs
"Never grow up. Stay hungry. Stay foolish. Think different." -- Steve Jobs
"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." -- Steve Jobs
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction." -- E.F. Schumacher
"If you stumble make it part of the dance."
"Worrying is like praying for something that you don’t want to happen." -- Robert Downey Jr.
"In dark times it can be hard to accept help from the outside world. Don’t be too proud to accept the help that you deserve to feel better." -- Robert Downey Jr.
"Success takes time, and by pushing yourself every day step by step it will get easier to reach your goals." -- Robert Downey Jr.
"Concentrate on the positive, and go through the problems by developing a self-discipline." -- Robert Downey Jr.
"You can feel sore or you can feel sorry tomorrow. You choose."
"What weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men and women. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone." -- Carlos Castaneda
"There’s something deeper than making money off stuff, being a part of creating stuff for the universe is awesome." -- Ilya Zhitomirskiy (Diaspora)
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." -- Aristotle
"Never attribute to stupidity or malice that which can be adequately explained by structural alignment of incentives." -- Hanlon's Razor changed by Kevin Kwok
"Good artists copy, Great artists steal." -- Pablo Picasso
"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist." -- Pablo Picasso
"Sometimes you gotta run before you can walk."
"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." -- Vincent Van Gogh
"Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger." -- Don Lucchesi, Godfather III
"Mister Worf, villains who twirl their moustaches are easy to spot. Those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well camouflaged." -- Captain Picard
“Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.” -- Tim Notke
"For first time in the human history we are so close to be all free. No matter the location, the country, the language, the color, the religion, or sex we want everyone to be free under the same human rights. Internet is helping a lot to that direction. The ones who want to censor the internet are afraid of the power of free speech. Because free speech can make free people."
"Be Lazy in an industrious way. Be Impatient in a very patient way. Be Proud in a very humble way."
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- When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
- The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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- A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
- A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
- A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.