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“Lives of great men all remind us
 We can make our lives sublime,
 And, departing, leave behind us
 Footprints on the sands of time.”
                                          - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
                                            From: A Psalm of Life


"A mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
                                                            - Oliver Wendell Holmes


"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it."
                                                             - Mark Twain         


"The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike - say - a brain surgeon."
                                                             - Robert Cormier


"More important than thinking you have the right answers, is knowing you have the right questions."
                                                             - Eli Amdur


"Why is there never time to do it right, but always time to do it over?"
                              - Anonymous,
                                but attributed to just about everybody.

       
“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war,
 while defeated warriors go to war and then seek to win.”
                                                - Sun Tzu
                                                  4th Century BC Military Strategist
                                                  The Art of War


"The primary activity in which most adults will engage in the 21st century will be learning. "
                         - Don't know if anyone ever said this like this before,                                    but I've been saying for a while.  - Eli Amdur


“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
                                                      - Thomas Edison

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                     Wanna' see what having NO vision looks like?

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
    - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp.,
      1977  

"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C' the idea must be feasible."       
    - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred
      Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service.
      Smith founded Federal Express.  

"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
    - H. M. Warner (1881-1958), founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927  

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
    - Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962  

"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
    - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899  

"Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.”
    - Simon Newcomb, professor of mathematics and astronomy at Johns
      Hopkins University (Uttered in 1902, almost two years AFTER the
      Wright brothers flew.)

                            That's what having NO vision looks like!
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                                   Better than Vision

"Interesting…I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray."
        -Seymour Cray (1925-1996) when he was told that Apple Inc. had
         recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the
         next Mac.
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"You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you."                                                         
                                                  - John Wooden

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On taking ownership of your career (in the face of job market difficulties):

        "You get to be a victim only once. After that, you're a volunteer."
                                                 - Juanita Turner

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