On the Future of Computers
I think there is a world market for may be five computers...
--Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
--Ken Olson, President, Chairman and Founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
--Bill Gates, in 1981
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.
Dealing with Others
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
--Abraham LincolnTreat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749-1832)
It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it.
--W. Somerset MaughamWhy we are here
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
--Winston Churchill
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
--Muhammad Ali
If you see what needs to be repaired and how to repair it, then you have found a piece of the world that G-d has left for you to complete. But if you one see what is wrong and how ugly it is, then it is yourself that needs repair.
Everyone is ignorant,
only on different subjects.
To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.
Be ready when opportunity comes.
Luck
is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.
I'm a great believer in luck,
and I find the harder I work...
the more I have of it
The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work.
-- Anon
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
--Colin Wilson
Whether You Think You Can or Can't, You're Right.
There's little success where there's little laughter.
Andrew Carnegie
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
Bill Beattie
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Samuel Johnson
(1709-1784, British Author)
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
(1859-1915, American Author, Publisher)
The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret.
Leo Buscaglia
(American Expert on Love, Lecturer, Author)
Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster.
Weston H. Agor
In today's economy there are no experts, no 'best and brightest' with all the answers. It's up to each one of us. The only way to screw up is to not try anything.
Ask
for what you want.
Believe
in
yourself.
Change
your
mind.
Do
what
you love.
Enjoy
each
and every day.
Follow
your
hearts desire.
Give
more
than you receive.
Have
a sense
of humor.
Insist
on
being yourself.
Join
in
more.
Kiss
and
make up.
Love
and be
loved.
Make
new
friends.
Nurture
your
spirit.
Overcome
adversity.
Play
more.
Question
conformity.
Reach
for the
stars.
Speak
your
truth.
Take
personal responsibility.
Understand
more,
judge less.
Volunteer
your
time.
Walk
through
fear.
Xperience
the
moment.
Yearn
for
grace.
be
Zestful
Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery,
today is God's gift,
that's why we call it the present.
- Marilyn Kennedy
Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
--Vince Lombardi
Success is getting what you want.Happiness is liking what you get.
- H. Jackson Brown
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.
-- Jack Penn
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
--Jawaharial Nehru
Charismatic leaders make us think,
"Oh, if only I could do
that, be like that."
True leaders make us think,
"If they can do that, then...I
can too."
--- John Holt, educator
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
--Henry Van Dyke
A man's mind, stretched by a new idea, can never go back to its original dimension.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
People are like teabags. You'll never know how strong they are until they're in hot water.
--- Rita Mae Brown, author
The time is always right to do what is right.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
-- Jonathan Winters
If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees.
If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.
Old Chinese Proverb
--Tom Peters
-- Harvey Mackay
-- T.S. Eliot
-- Aristotle
-- Helen Keller
--Sam Leveneson
The man who never makes a mistake must get tired of doing nothing.
Care more than others think is wise.
Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.
- Cadet maxim
U.S. Military Academy, West Point
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
--Charles Franklin Kettering
Watch
your thoughts; they become words,
Watch your words; they become actions,
Watch your actions; they become habits,
Watch your habits; they become character,
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
--Frank Outlaw
-- Carl Bard
Hopefully some of the words above have helped you on your path. Please spread the joy
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Nkosi
Johnson addresses the International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa,
July 9, 2000 ThinkExist.com has a brief biography of the person who said it as well as the way to cite in MLA and if you register a place to collect your favorite quotes
Zaadz is Dutch for "seed." - quotes and poems and articles and a forum
John
Lennon said it.
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
Nowhere below us
Above only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...
This I believe essay by magician Penn Jillette comes pretty close to
what
I believe and
The Gift of Kindness by David Copperfield
does too
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Freeman
Institute - 1,000's of quotes in no particular order...other great
reading on his site too 
Motivational
Quotes: Risk-Taking and Change
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(listed by category and Author)At SuccessNet.org they are all about success of course.
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A fable of about Rocks and Pebbles. And for fun try Lollie. Whoohoo has laugh and some inspiration.
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