"What people CAN do is very different from what they WILL do."

“Instead of the primitive raw material economy, we will create a smart economy generating unique knowledge, new useful things and technologies. Instead of the archaic society, in which the leaders think and make decisions for everyone, we will become a country of intelligent, free and responsible people”

Source : "Medvedev wants Russia to go hi-tech" by Maxim Tkachenko, edition.cnn.com. November 12, 2009.

“He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.”

Source : Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.81, Ravenio Books

“I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn't necessarily believe in.”

“The duty of universities is toward their nation, for which they must prepare leaders in all fields and these must be necessarily ethnically native. For it is intolerable that a nation educate for itself alien leaders in its universities.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.

“As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.”

“I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.”

“There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.”

“Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”