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There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
    -Ken Olson, President, Chairman, Founder, Digital Equipment

Everything that can be invented, has been invented.
    -Charles  Duel, Commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899

"One of the issues that has always worried me about Harvard students, particularly freshmen, is the notion (which I think is a false one - but it's a real one in their mind) that they must now justify everything that has ever been said about them and that they must prove themselves to be perfect paragons of success and achievement, and the reason that's a problem is that none of them are perfect paragons of success or achievement."
    -Peter Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church

When one door closes, another opens for us.  But we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
    -Alexander Graham Bell

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
   -Mary Pickford

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
     -Winston Churchill

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
    -Pablo Picasso

I am  not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
    -Louisa May Alcott

Try the rough water as well as the smooth.  Rough water can teach lessons worth knowing.
  -Ralph Waldo Emerson

If everything seems under control, you just aren’t going fast enough.
    -Mario Andretti

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
    -Savielly G. Tartakower, Chessmaster

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
    -Bill Lyon

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
    -Henry Ford

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
    -Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 

640K ought to be enough for anybody.
    - Bill Gates

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
    -Jean Giraudoux

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
    -Niels Bohr, Danish physicist