Aeordynamically, the bumblebee should not be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

--Mary Kay Ash, entrepeneur

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

--Winston Churchill, British statesman

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

--Shunryu Suzuki, Zen master

Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or not to do.

--Jonas Salk, doctor, researcher

You better live everyday like your last, because one day you are going to be right.

--Ray Charles, musician

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

--Conrad Hilton, hotelier

The fight is won or lost far away from wintesses - behind enemy lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

--Muhammad Ali, boxer

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

--Yogi Berra, baseball player

Once you say you are going to settle for second, that is what happnes to you in life.

--John F. Kennedy, 35th US President

i thought this was appropriate for today :

    "The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away." - Ronald Reagan

LOL great quote!

"People who boast about their IQ are loosers" - Stephen Hawking  when asked what his IQ was

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
- Issac Asimov

"Markets are always right - opinions often are not."

- Jesse Livermore

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is that not the most incredible piece of poetry

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”
— Bertrand Russell

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

--Albert Schweitzer, physician, humanitarian

Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

--Oscar Wilde, playwright

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

--Confucius, Chinese philosopher

Action is the foundational key to all success.

--Pablo Picasso, artist

If you give something worth paying for, they'll pay.

--Tom Peters, author

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

--David Brinkley, TV journalist

The toughest thing about success is that you have got to keep on being a success.

--Irving Berlin, composer

Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.

--Willie Mays, baseball player

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

--Charles Kettering, inventor, philosopher

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pinpricks that precede cannon shots.

--Napolean Bonaparte, French emperor

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

--Thomas Edison, inventor

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, poet, and philosopher

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

--Duke Ellington, composer

High expectations are the key to everything.

--Sam Walton, retailer

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

--John Maynard Keynes, economist

Education means making creators -- not conformists.

--Jean Piaget, psychologist

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

--Plautus, Roman playwright

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

--Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th US President, general

If you are not learning while you are earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

--Napoleon Hill, author

The key to winning is poise under stress.

--Paul Brown, football coach

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration, then more practice and more concentration.

--Babe Didrikson Zaharias, sportswoman

I had no special sagacity - only the power of patient thought.

--Isaac Newton, mathematician, physicist

There are only two ways to live your life. One as though nothing is a miracle. The other as though everything is a miracle.

--Albert Einstein, physicist

Let him that would move the world, first move himself.

--Socrates, philosopher

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

--Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th US President, general

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures, and that is character.

--Horace Greeley, publisher, journalist

Long-range goals keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures.

--James Cash Penney, retailer

The best eraser in the world is a good night's sleep.

--O.A. Battista, chemist

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

--Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer

It is possible to do whatever you choose, if you get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power greater than ourselves to do it.

--Oprah Winfrey, talk-show host, entrepeneur

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It is a weakness to get caught up in either one.

--John Wooden, basketball coach

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

--Demosthenes, Greek philosopher

Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles.

--Chuck Mills, football coach

A leader must posses credibility, imagination, enthusiasm, vision, foresight, a sense of timing, a passion for excellence and be willing to share.

--William Rosenberg, entrepreneur

The secret of getting things done is to act!

--Dante Alighieri, poet

Most people have the will to win. Few have the will to prepare to win.

--Bobby Knight, basketball coach

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

--Muhammad Ali, boxer

Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.

--Kahlil Gibran, writer

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

--Pablo Picasso, artist

Opportunity's favorite disguise is trouble.

--English proverb

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, and indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

--Charles Lindbergh, aviator

"A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light"

"A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy."    — Joseph Campbell

Hardware /nm./: the part of the computer that you can kick.

"Profanity is the one language all programmers know best."

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMGoodness that was unbelievably funny.

Fundamentalists who say they are not going to pay any attention to the charts are like a doctor who says he’s not going to take a patient’s temperature.—Bruce Kovner

Middleness is the very enemy of the bold.

--Charles Krauthammer, writer

To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.

--John Glenn, astronaut, US Senator

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

--Duke Ellington, musician

Never "for the sake of peace and quiet" deny your own experience or convictions.

--Dag Hammarskjold, former United Nations secretary-general

Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.

--John F. Kennedy, 35th US President

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

--Mother Teresa of Calcutta, religious leader

There is no such thing as a free lunch.

--Milton Friedman, economist

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

--John D. Rockefeller, industrialist

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

--Dwight D. Eisenhower, US general and 34th US President

Celebrate what you have accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.

--Mia Hamm, soccer player

Innovate, develop, motivate, inspire, trust -- be a leader.

--Ted Turner, broadcasting executive

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him

--Aldous Huxley, author

My brain is the key that sets me free.

--Harry Houdini, magician

If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.

--Georges Guynemer, aviator

The mind is hard to check. It is a swift and wanders at will. To control it is good. A controlled mind is conducive to happiness.

--Siddhartha Gautama, religious leader

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

--Louis Pasteur, microbiologist

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

--Aristotle, Greek philosopher