"Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time."

-- Joseph Conrad

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“The 2002 (Olympic) team was a great team, we won the gold medal, they deserved all the accolades that they got. But this team seems to have a little more depth and maybe a little more talent to pick from. So it makes the job of picking the right 23 guys even more difficult.”
“There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.”
“When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble.”
“Last century, when the beams needed replacing, carpenters used oak trees that had been planted in 1386 when the dining hall was first built. The 14th-century builder had planted the trees in anticipation of the time, hundreds of years in the future, when the beams would need replacing. Did the carpenters plant new trees to replace the beams again a few hundred years from now?”

Source : "WIRED SCENARIOS: - The Millennium Clock Danny Hillis". www.wired.com. December 06, 1995.
“I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.”
“Kelly, Kelly, Kelly. I love your voice man, you give me chills... Brilliant.”
“And something tells me if it matters, maybe it shouldn't be easy.”
“I tell the stories in front of audiences and wait for something to happen. It's similar to a standup comic doing his schtick for an audience.”

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