"Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is a thief."

-- Tim O'Reilly

#Technology Quotes #Trying Quotes #Thieves Quotes

“The scientist knows that the ultimate of everything is unknowable. No matter What subject you take, the current theory of it if carried to the ultimate becomes ridiculous. Time and space are excellent examples of this.”
“The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.”

Source : Sir William Temple (1814). “The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart: To which is Prefixed, the Life and Character of the Author, Considerably Enlarged”, p.547
“There probably is no more important quest in all science than the attempt to understand those very particular events in evolution by which brains worked out that special trick that has enabled them to add to the cosmic scheme of things: color, sound, pain, pleasure, and all the other facets of mental experience.”

Source : "Evolution of the Human Brain". Lecture by Roger Wolcott Sperry, 1964.
“Classrooms and educations need to be places of infectious passion”
“It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.”

Source : Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.100
“I love to make things. If I have some free time and you have a dollar and a dream and you are making something funny and cool I'd love to be a part of it.”

Source : "Exclusive Interview: Mean Girls’ Daniel Franzese on His Career". Interview with Tim Gerstenberger, www.tvovermind.com. August 25, 2014.
“I'm 82 years old, wherever I go everybody knows me, but here's why... I'm a merchandiser, I'm not just a writer, I stay in every avenue you can think of.”

Source : Interview with Michael Carlson, Crime Time, 2001.

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