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“The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas.”

“Wealth is what you want, not money.”

“When you're operating on the maker's schedule, meetings are a disaster.”

“Wisdom is just knowing the right thing to do, and there are a hundred and one different qualities that help in that.”

“You can't wait for users to come to you.”

“A donkey is simply a horse translated into Dutch.”

“Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.”

“I would fain teach women that self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.”

“No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.”

“The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right, to choose his own surroundings.”

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.”

“Art is a demonstration of which nature is the proof.”

“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.”

“Masterpieces are only lucky attempts.”

“We cannot tear a single page from our life, but we can throw the whole book into the fire.”

“Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.”

“Your career is your business, and you are its CEO.”

“Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well.”

“If you do not work on an important problem, it's unlikely you'll do important work.”

“Teachers should prepare the student for the student's future, not for the teacher's past.”

“The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.”

“Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.”

“Inventions are easy for me to do.”

“The unknown was always so attractive to me… and still is.”

“To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it.”

“It is not the task of the University to offer what society asks for, but to give what society needs.”

“It is time to unmask the computing community as a Secret Society for the Creation and Preservation of Artificial Complexity.”

“Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.”

“The problems of the real world are primarily those you are left with when you refuse to apply their effective solutions.”

“The purpose of abstracting is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.”

“The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.”

“Data abstractions provide the same benefits as procedures, but for data.”

“And most of all, when attention is precious, earning that attention with innovation is priceless.”

“Competing with yourself is more difficult, requires more bravery and leads to more insight.”

“The strategy is the hard part, not the tactics.”

“A good product manager is the CEO of the product.”

“If you survive long enough to see tomorrow, it may bring you the answer that seems so impossible today.”

“Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.”

“Peacetime CEO spends time defining the culture. Wartime CEO lets the war define the culture.”

“The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.”

“Authenticity without boundaries is careless. Authenticity without empathy is selfish.”

“Think like a scientist: treat your opinions as hypotheses and decisions as experiments.”

“When givers succeed, all boats rise with the tide. When takers succeed, they tend to sink all the other boats.”

“I am rooting for the machines!”

“I see no limit to the capabilities of machines.”

“Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.”

“He's dead, Jim.”

“If you build it, he will come.”

“Let's work the problem, people. Let's not make things any worse by guessing.”

“Lunch is for wimps.”

“Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?”

“Momma says stupid is as stupid does.”

“Money never sleeps, pal.”

“No! Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try.”

“Nothin'. A handful of nothin'. You stupid mullet head. He beat you with nothin'.”

“Now I know what it feels like to be God!”

“Now you know why they call me 'Dirty Harry'. I get every dirty job that comes along.”

“People will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.”

“Round up the usual suspects.”

“Run, Forrest! Run!”

“So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.”

“Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: To explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before.”

“There's no place like home.”

“This was no boating accident.”

“When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.”

“Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.”

“You can't handle the truth!”

“You're goddamn right I did!”

“You've a magnificent brain, Moriarty. I admire it.”

“Pressure is a privilege.”

“A big part of almost every story in history is that expectations move slower than facts.”

“An asset you don’t deserve can quickly become a liability.”

“Every great idea can be taken too far.”

“Great communicators treat words as the scarcest commodity.”

“It takes less effort to increase confidence than it does ability.”

“Someone will always be getting richer than you. It’s OK.”