"We're reviewing everything to see how we can do it better, faster, and more efficiently."

-- David Neeleman

“The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.”
“All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.”

Source : Karl Pearson (2007). “The Grammar of Science”, p.30, Cosimo, Inc.
“Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?”
“The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the ones who want to learn new skills.”
“Soâ€¦â€ Kimball looks at his book helplessly. â€œThereâ€™s nothing you can tell me about Paul Owen?â€ â€œWell.â€ I sigh. â€œHe led what I suppose was an orderly life, I guess. â€œ Really stumped, I offer, â€œHe...ate a balanced diet.”
“Miraculously, smoke curled out of his own mouth, his nose, his ears, his eyes, as if his soul had been extinguished within his lungs at the very moment the sweet pumpkin gave up its incensed ghost.”
“The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think”
“I've received many honors and I'm grateful for them; but I've already received the highest award I'll ever receive, and that has been the privilege and honor of serving very proudly in the United States Navy.”

Source : Chips (Department of the Navy information technology magazine), October 1986.

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