One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. Helen Keller US blind & deaf educator (1880 - 1968) The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization. Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990 It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages. Adam Smith All last year we tried to teach him English, and the only word he learned was million. Tommy Lasorda, on pitcher Fernando Valenzuela What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say. Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) I think I am a verb. R. Buckminster Fuller US architect & engineer (1895 - 1983) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. US diplomat & Democratic politician (1900 - 1965) I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. Samuel Johnson English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784) Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself. Joel Hawes "Where did you put it?"<br> "Put what?"<br> "You know?"<br> "Where do you think?"<br> "Oh." Nicholas Negroponte, Director of the MIT Media Lab, stating his ideal model of human-computer interaction |