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Some of Jeff's favorite quotes... "There is nothing quite so complicated as simplicity.” - Charles Poole “Innovation has never come through bureaucracy and hierarchy. It always comes from individuals.” - John Scully “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” - Albert Einstein “I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it ceased to be one.” - Mark Twain “If you don’t know where you’re going, you could wind up someplace else.” - Yogi Berra “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”- Arthur C. Clarke “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” - Albert Einstein “Intuition is linear; our imaginations are weak. Even the brightest of us only extrapolate from what we know now; for the most part, we're afraid to really stretch.” - Rafe Needleman and Ray Kurzweil “Mythology distracts us everywhere. For the great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie: deliberate, contrived and dishonest. But the myth: persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” - John F. Kennedy “It is not a matter of designing the best transistor, it is a matter of designing the best solution.” - Unknown “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” - Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless “The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities. It is best to win without fighting.” - Sun-tzu, The Art of War "Do it big. Do it right. Give it class." - Ray Lawrence "Nothing is impossible, just incomprehensible." - Unknown "Don't fight forces; use them." - R. Buckminster Fuller "Speak truth to power" - Unknown "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt "A moment wasted is an opportunity we won't ever get back" - Frazz “Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show. But wonder on, till truth make all things plain.” - Shakespeare “Study the past if you would divine the future.” - Confucius "Always take a job that is too big for you." - fortune cookie "What if..., if only..., if this goes on..." - Isaac Asimov “I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might provide others.” - Thomas Edison
“A play there is, my lord, some ten words long, Which is as brief as I have known a play; But by ten words, my lord, it is too long.” - Shakespeare
"You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them." - Malcom S. Forbes
“Forecasts are dangerous, particularly those about the future.” - Samuel Goldwyn
“When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.” - Cuban Proverb
“Even the best team, without a sound plan, can’t score.” - Woody Hayes
"Be kind. For everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." - Plato
“What is conceived well is expressed clearly.” - Nicolas Boileau
“Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the customer gets out of it.” - Peter Drucker
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” - Milton Berle
“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” - Sun Tzu
“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.” - Jonathan Swift
“Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.” - Mahatma Gandhi
"Do what you enjoy, and do it well" - Ray Lawrence
"Sometimes one dream is enough to light up the whole sky." - the movie October Sky
“In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste swim with the current.” – Thomas Jefferson
“I never learnt anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.” - Lou Holtz
"Teach hope to all, despair to none." - Abraham Lincoln
"The universe if full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." - Apted
"Weeks of research. Gut instinct. Same decision." - a billboard
"A stumble may prevent a fall." - English proverb
"If you see a bandwagon, it is too late." - Unknown
"No matter where you go, there you are." - Buckaroo Banzai
"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood." - Unknown
"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once." - Woody Allen
"Prediction is very hard, especially when it's about the future." - Yogi Berra
"Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying." - Arthur C. Clarke
"You've got to go out on a limb sometimes, because that's where the fruit is." - Will Rogers
"The fastest way to succeed is to double your failure rate." - Thomas J. Watson
"The price of greatness is responsibility" - Winston Churchill
"Confidence is what you feel before you comprehend the situation" - Unknown
"Mistakes are the foundation upon which progress is built." - Unknown "Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing." - Adidas advertisement "Do one thing every day that scares you." - Eleanor Roosevelt "There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer "Nothing is so dangerous as ignorance in action" - Goethe "When you learn, teach. When you get, give." - Unknown "We don't remember the days; we remember the moments" - Unknown
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