Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Thomas A. Edison

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Steve Jobs

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.
Steve Jobs

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
Stephen Hawking

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.
Stephen Hawking

I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
Tom Landry

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
T. S. Eliot

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
Malcolm X

In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.
Amelia Earhart

I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.
Jack LaLanne

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.
Julius Caesar

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
P. J. O'Rourke

There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
P. J. O'Rourke

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
Thomas Merton

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
Thomas Merton

I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.
Clint Eastwood

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.
Clint Eastwood

My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.
Clint Eastwood

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
Salvador Dali