Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Kay

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Cleveland Abbe

I have started that which the country will not willingly let die.

Cleveland Abbe

The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.

John Dykstra

Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all done-it's just when they took it away from you.

Jonas Salk

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Jonas Salk

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

We're stunned by the diversity of rocks. This stuff looks like it was put into a blender.

Barry Commoner

There is nothing new about national policies on major social interests such as education or labor - or, for that matter, the environment.

Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

This whole mission has surpassed all of our expectations.

This time with Xbox 360, we've got the experienced team, we've shipped a lot of console games and built some incredible franchises.

The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not.

When we opened our eyes, we saw bedrock exposed in the walls of the crater.

Alfred Kinsey

We are recorders and reporters of the facts - not judges of the behavior we describe.

Yoshiro Mori

It is my strong hope that an environment will be created in which both of our countries can cooperate for the realization of a world without nuclear weapons.

Yoshiro Mori

Japan is the only country in the world which suffered from the scourge of nuclear weapons.

E. O. Wilson

It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.

Benjamin Spock

You know more than you think you do.

Clyde Tombaugh

We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation.

I've been looking at the iPod- the Apple iPod. One of the interesting things about the iPod, one of the things that people love most about it is not the technology; it's the box it comes in.

As for all those mistakes I make - they are on purpose - to teach you how to deal with them.

A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?

Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.

User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.

We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.

In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.

Bram Cohen

When I put my mind to it I can be a megalomaniac.

Bram Cohen

I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right. I'm very, very good at writing protocols. I've accomplished more working on my own than I ever did as part of a team.

You can not define being exactly on time.

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

The emphasis should be on why we do a job.

Any manager can do well in an expanding market.

When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.