There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.
I never wanted Ford to be a place, like the tobacco industry, where our employees were not proud of coming to work for us. I felt there was a danger of that, should we be marginalized as a major polluter.
It comes out from no source, it goes back in through no aperture. It has reality yet no place where it resides; it has duration yet no beginning or end. Something emerges, though through no aperture - this refers to the fact that it has reality. It h...
While still practising law, he'd run a hearse-rental agency. Then, later, he'd bought into a handkerchief factory in Baker Park. Their most famous innovation was the funeral hankerchief, a plain white cotton handkerchief with a black border. Not long...
It's only when we dare to experience the full anxiety of knowing that life doesn't go on forever that we can experience transcendence and get in touch with the infinite. To use an analogy from gestalt psychology, Non-Being is the necessary ground for...
Well I won't back down No I won't back down You can stand me up at the gates of hell But I won't back down
Sometimes it's better not to ask-or to listen-when tell you something can't be done. I didn't ask for permission or approval. I just went ahead and did it.
He would love her if she were a wolf that tore out his heart. And he wondered what that said about love.
I have ridden out all the storms,” said Shakespeare, “even the ones I wrote myself. Here, look, it begins…
Christmas is the spark within our hearts that ignites as each day grows closer and burns brightly with the promise of compassion, love and generosity of spirit.
...why do people venerate Einstein or Bill Gates? Clive Bell explains: Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age....
Some people would rather live in a hell they've got used to than in a paradise they've never experienced before.
but I learned long ago that it does no good to think too far into the future. There is only here. Only now.
The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts.
But when I got angry, my nerves sought an outlet, and my mouth didn't always guard the gates.
He hugged her tight, mixing their tears to be bottled and fermented, so they could be drunk on each other when this was all over.
While information is the oxygen of the modern age, disinformation is the carbon monoxide that can poison generations.
An open internet is an open platform for debating opposing views. It allows unpopular voices to be heard.
I believe e-courses will eventually change people's attitude toward learning. Education will play an increasingly dominant role in people's lives. For people of all ages and all geographies.
My dad just imprinted in my mind from a very young age that you always do what you say you're gonna do when you say you're gonna do it.
