For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster’s own personal example.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google.

Everybody is entertained to death.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or indeed the world, not only in the size and beauty of the trees, but in the number of species assembled together, and the grandeur of the mountains they are growing on.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

I don’t measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can’t because I’ll just end up crushed.

I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it’s a disaster that we have moved so far from nature.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

Nature does nothing in vain.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

If you deserve it, go get it.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Success is the child of audacity.

The environment is everything that isn’t me.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

There’s no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

Surface R&B doesn’t work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show – that’s not really where it’s at any more. It’s becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed.

I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to be capable of doing things that aren’t historical that nobody had ever thought of doing before.

Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.