Category: Notes

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

– Steve Jobs

There is nothing like “basic science” and “applied science”. There is only science and its application.

– Louis Pasteur

Far and away the best prize that life offers is a chance to work hard at work worth doing.

– Theodore Roosevelt

…a fourth rate lecturer, who cannot speak good grammar.

The New York Herald (May 19 1860) describing Abraham Lincoln

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

– Walt Disney

You cannot make the poor rich by making the rich poor.

– Abraham Lincoln

Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.

– Savielly Tartakower

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

– Thomas Jefferson

There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

– William Shakespeare