Wednesday, March 21, 2007

some good quotes

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
-- Howard Aiken

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.
-- Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
-- Mark Twain

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
-- Donald H. Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense

He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have.
-- Don Juan Manuel

Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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