"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history" -- George Bernard Shaw
"You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd" -- Unknown
"Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff" -- Frank Zappa
"In the fight between you and the world, back the world" -- Frank Zappa
"A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure" -- Theodore Adorno
"To ask the hard question is simple" -- W. H. Auden
"An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it" -- Anon
"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite" -- William Blake
"Life is trying things to see if they work" -- Ray Bradbury
"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something" -- Frank Capra
"Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse" -- James Carswell
"One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak" -- G. K. Chesterton
"When the way comes to an end, then change" -- having changed, you pass through" -- I Ching
"No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time steady eye" -- Winston Churchill
"Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration" -- Thomas Edison
"The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems we cannot solve at the same level of thinking at which we created them" -- Albert Einstein
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds" -- Albert Einstein
"1. Out of clutter, find simplicity 2. From discord, find harmony 3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity" -- Albert Einstein
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler" -- Albert Einstein
"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Whether you believe you can, or whether you believe you can't, you're absolutely right" -- Henry Ford
"The more you think, the more time you have" -- Henry Ford
"Persistance is the hard work that you do after you are tired of doing the hard work you already did" -- Newt Gingrich
"To live is to have problems and to solve problems is to grow intellectually" -- J. P. Guilford
"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end" -- Ursula K. Le Guin
"You lose it if you talk about it" -- Ernest Hemingway
"One cannot step twice into the same river" -- Heraclitus
"What is originality? Undetected plagerism" -- Unknown
"In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start" -- William James
"Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way" -- William James
"You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best" -- Steve Jobs
"A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free" -- Nikos Kazantzakis
"The map is not the territory" -- Alfred Korzbyski
"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail" -- Dr. Edwin Land
"I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird" -- Paul McCartney
"The obvious is always least understood" -- Prince Metternich
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers" -- Pablo Picasso
"I do not seek. I find" -- Pablo Picasso
"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself" -- Chinese Proverb
"Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced" -- Ned Rorem
"Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind" -- Zen saying
