In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that’s been going on since the Second World War.

If you’d have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn’t know what you were talking about. And then, they’d be against it.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Africa is on the rise.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

I’d done a lot of research in Hollywood and in academia. I love research and so I wanted to kind of ground the book in history, in things that I read that were universal and timeless and then kind of let my own experiences sort of filter through all of this history.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don’t know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

London is a roost for every bird.

Eventually, all companies are replaced.

Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.

When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had at last won the Crusades and driven the pagans out of the Holy Land.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

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.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

Not all those who wander are lost.

I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new places, the places where the rules do not work – not the places where they do work! That is the way in which we discover new rules.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

Science is magic that works.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we’re going to reinvent the phone.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

California is not just the Golden State. We are also the Internet State.

I’m interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you’re like, ‚Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?‘

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

You can’t really imagine music without technology.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‚Look, here’s what happened.‘

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

History, a distillation of rumour.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Infrastructure web services had to happen.