"We are superior to the competition because we hire employees who work in an environment of belonging and purpose. We foster a climate where the employee can deliver what the customer wants. You cannot deliver what the customer wants by controlling the employee."

“It's always difficult to write honestly of one's deepest feelings, particularly without the protective veil of fiction. But the more difficult, the more rewarding if one succeeds. Rewarding not only to the work but to one's peace of mind.”

“Success and failure are not true op-posites and they're not even in the same class; they're not even a couch and a chair.”

“...[I]f we care about our remaining liberties we must at some point draw a line in the sand and let politicians and bureaucrats know we will not tolerate further encroachment on our God-given rights to liberty.”

“Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently ... It is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL which we see not, which exists not for our senses... Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things... Imagination too shows what is ... Hence she is or should be especially cultivated by the truly Scientific, those who wish to enter into the worlds around us!”

“The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal health.”

Source : Ivan Illich (1976). “Limits to medicine”

“... The approach of von Neumann and Connes to the use of non-commutative algebra in physics is naive, the situation is much more complicated.”

“God felt sorry for actors, so he gave them a place in the sun and a lot of money. All they had to sacrifice was their talent.”

Source : "Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies" by Leslie Halliwell, (p. 362), 2001.

“Every startup should address a real and demonstrated need in the world. If you build a solution to a problem lots of people have, it's so easy to sell your product to the world.”