The truth does not reveal itself to idle spectators.

It's a good idea to pay attention to the world and try to understand how it works rather than how you would like it to work.

Out of the current confusion of ideals and confounding of career hopes, a calm recognition may yet emerge that productive labor is the foundation of all prosperity.

What sort of personality does one need to have, as a twenty-first-century mechanic, to tolerate the layers of electronic bullshit that get piled on top of machines?

You're born with certain gifts and you use them as best you can in life. You begin to learn and recognize that you have certain skills and aptitudes that you apply and use them to carry you forward.

Sometimes a thong completely betrays you.

This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.

Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.

I am not retired! I will be retired the day I die.

We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.

[On children:] Being built closer to the floor, they can dust the baseboards in half the time.

I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.

The concept of a 'just' or 'fair' price is devoid of any scientific meaning; it is a disguise for wishes, a striving for a state of affairs different from reality.

Start-up should focus on innovation not on building on infrastructure. Thanks to Google cloud service they can.