Quotes
Character
"Every prophet has to come from civilization, but every prophet has to go into the wilderness. He must have a strong impression of a complex society and all that it has to give, and then he must serve periods of isolation and meditation. This is the process by which psychic dynamite is made." - Winston Churchill
"The truth takes time" - Robert Caro
Creativity
"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them." - Pablo Picasso
Exploration
"Given ships or sails adapted to the breezes of heaven, there will be those who will not shrink from even that vast expanse" - Johannes Kepler
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore." - Mark Twain
Failure
"Failure, failure, failure, partial success, renewed failure, ultimate and complete triumph." - Randolph Churchill on Disraeli's life
"If you don't fail 90 per cent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." - Alan Kay
Hard Work
"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration." - Thomas Edison
Independence
"From now on, my shop is going to be my shop. I'm not letting a bunch of rich people tell me what to do." - Henry Ford
Originality
"You can always spot the pioneers by the arrows in their backs." - William H. Calvin
Process
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard Feynman
Progress
"Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order." - Sydney Brenner
"The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate" - Doug Engelbart
Simplicity
"Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millenium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise?" - John Wheeler
"Life is nothing but an electron looking for a place to rest." - Albert Szent-Györgyi