"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."
- Goethe (1749-1832)

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"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)


"Luck is the residue of design."
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team


"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."
- Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut


"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)


"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."
- Vince Lombardi


"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell


"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)


"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
- Antoine de Saint Exupery


"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)


"Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches."
- The Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life


"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)


"The mistakes are all waiting to be made."
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position


"There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult."
- C. A. R. Hoare


"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)


"Men have become the tools of their tools."
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)


" The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
- Alan Kay


"Never mistake motion for action."
- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)


"Well done is better than well said."
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)


"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
- Thomas Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, 1943


"If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"
- Will Rogers (1879-1935)


"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction."
- General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)