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"[W]hat good will it do the peasant to be able to fly through the air on his wheelbarrow, while no temple, no holy day, is left him any more on earth? What errand can he have up among the clouds, while yet no heaven arches above his soul?"
as referenced in "Engineering and the Liberal Arts" by Samuel C. Florman
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"There is not in the world a more ignoble character than the mere money-getting American, insensitive to every duty, regardless of every principle, bent only on amassing a fortune."
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"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government."
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"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government."
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"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty."
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"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds."
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"Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
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"By acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid."
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"It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better."
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"A user interface is like a joke, if you have to explain it, it's not that good!"
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"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right."
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"Design should never say 'Look at me'. It should always say 'Look at this'"
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"The only source of knowledge is experience."
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"Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us."
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"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire."
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"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
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"Very little beats a bad idea well executed."
by Jef Mallett
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Stephen Hawkings
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Happy (con)trails --