“When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. And one thing it takes to accomplish something is courage.” Walt Disney
“You can’t win an argument. You can’t because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.” Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness….” Sophocles, Antigone
“With word we begin to leave traces behind us like breadcrumbs: memories and symbols for others to follow.” The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood, James Gleick
“The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven…” John Milton, Paradise Lost Book II
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
“Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men, computing machines are very fast and very accurate, but they are constrained to perform only one or a few elementary operations at a time. Men are flexible, capable of ‘programming themselves contingently’ on the basis of newly received information. Computing machines are single-minded, constrained by their ‘pre-programming.'” J.C.R. Licklider, Article “Man-Computer Symbiosis,” in IRE Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics (Mar 1960), Vol. HFE-1, 4-11.
“If you want to stop living in the present you can reach into the past, but you’ll never get back what you lost, you’ll only lose what you have.”
Tomorrow Is Forever (1946)
“It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.” Charles Darwin
“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.” Aristotle
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” Stephen Hawking
“One fails forward toward success.” C. S. Lewis
“The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.” John Hancock
“EPCOT will take its cue from the new ideas and new technologies that are emerging from the forefront of American industry. It will be a community of tomorrow that will never be completed. It will always be showcasing and testing and demonstrating new materials and new systems.” Walt Disney, October 27, 1966
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