Henry Ford: "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

Baz Luhrmann: "Do one thing every day that scares you."

"It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission" - Grace Hopper

Helen Rowland: "You will never win if you never begin."

"In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few" - Shunryu Suzuki

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe" - H. G. Wells

As wisdom without courage is futile, even so faith without hope is nothing worth; for hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil.– Martin Luther

In the new-new-new-testaments "faith" won't need evil... one man's freedom fighter is another tradition loving neanderthal.2.*.edu :p

Jiddu KrishnamurtiGilbert K. Chesterton

When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental-So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack, or count himself lost. His one aim is to disarm suspicion, to arouse confidence in his orthodoxy, to avoid challenge. All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most easily adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.

The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.– H.L. Mencken, July 26, 1920

Earnestness, not perfection, is a precondition to success. ~ Unknown

From Cosmos TV series.

Carl Sagan: "Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars."

"Hard to believe it’s only been 15 minutes since I destroyed the world. … And to think my high school guidance counselor said I would never amount to anything."

--Spies Like Us

Never was... and never will be..

- Solid Snake - David

One lesson that I draw from the pervasiveness of ignorance and uncertainty is that the civility and robustness of a community depends on the extent to which each of us acknowledges that at least some part of everything we think we know isn’t actually true (including, I suppose, this knowledge, as well). That is, a free and flourishing society demands both tolerance and criticism from its citizens.– Sandy Ikeda

More Red Dwarf Quotes
 

RIMMER: No, Lister, what makes us different from animals is we don't use
our tongues to clean our own genitals.

How come you need more memory? Over the years you've had more RAM than a field of sheep!
- Cat, Tikka to Ride

There's only three alternatives: it thinks we're either a threat, food or a mate.... It's either gonna kill us, eat us or hump us. Either we persuade him we're not that kinda oceanic salvage vessel, or we scarper pronto.
- Lister, Back to Reality

UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
— Doug Gwyn

There are two major products of Berkeley, CA -- LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be strictly by coincidence.
— Jeremy S. Anderson