"It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator."
Aristotle's Ethics as quoted in Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor
“Do or do not, there is no try”
Yoda
“For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in fact Forty-two – and so another, even bigger, computer had to be built to find out what the actual question was…”
Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“I remind myself of Einstein’s remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18…”
Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Taleb
“In other words they have the capacity to see dimly into the immediate future, which enables the elevator to be on the right floor to pick you up even before you knew you wanted it, thus eliminating all the tedious chatting, relaxing, and making friends that people were previously forced to do while waiting for elevators… Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented briefly with the notion of going sideways, as a sort of existential protest, demanded participation in the decision-making process, and finally took to squatting in basements sulking…”
Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“In theory there’s no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is…”
Yogi Berra
“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go…”
T.S. Eliot
“The definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result…”
attributed to both Albert Einstein and Ben Franklin
“The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible…”
Tom Peters
“The important thing is not to stop questioning…”
Albert Einstein
“The trouble with much of the advice business gets today about the need to be more vigorously creative is that its advocates often fail to distinguish between creativity and innovation. Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things... The shortage is of innovators...”
Tom Peters, In Search of Excellence
“There is a theory which states that if anyone discovers exactly what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states this has already happened…”
Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
“We will now discuss in a little more detail the struggle for existence…”
Charles Robert Darwin, on the Origin of Species… thanks for the quote Keith Yamashita