"Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new ideas without risking disapproval and rejection."

“Obviously we want to keep the jobs we've got.”

“From the Latin word "imponere", base of the obsolete English "impone" and translated as "impress" in modern English, Nordic hackers have coined the terms "imponator" (a device that does nothing but impress bystanders, referred to as the "imponator effect") and "imponade" (that "goo" that fills you as you get impressed with something - from "marmelade", often referred as "full of imponade", always ironic).”

“What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later.”

“Killed by a man with a switch blade knife, for 43 dollars my friend lost his life.”

“It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.”

“I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share of hard times thereafter. Also, one of my really good friends committed suicide when I was in high school.”

“May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.”

Source : J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.”