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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -George Bernard Shaw

The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible. -A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. -Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -Ken Olsen, President of DEC (Digital Equipment Corp.), World Future Society Convention, 1977.

Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. -Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. - Henry Ford, Edward Everett Hale

Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently. - Henry Ford

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. -Samuel Butler

In the first place, God created idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. -Mark Twain

Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH. -Rick Bayan

A man there was, tho' some did count him mad / The more he cast away, the more he had. -John Bunyan, preacher (1628-1688) [Pilgrim's Progress]

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. - Bertrand Russell

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau

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