Watch your thought, they become words.
Watch your words, they become actions.
Watch your actions, they become habits.
Watch your habits, they become character,
Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Frank Outlaw

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds
wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dream with open eyes,
to make it possible.
T. E. Lawrence

Lighten up. Take in some fresh air and sunlight.
Face challenges eagerly.
Look through the eyes of appreciation.
Relish adventure.
Forgive your parents and
cut yourself some slack.
Make someone happy.
Never be disheartened.
Re-invent. Reach. Risk.
Refuse, resist and re-use.
Walk the dog.
Surrender.
Do not wait for a better world.
Dance with the stars.
Let it go.
Expect the best.
Know all difficulties in your life have purpose.
The Body Shop

We who have lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.
They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.
Viktor Frankl

The Principles of the Art of Stalking

Warriors choose their battleground.
A warrior never goes into battle without knowing what the surroundings are.

Don’t complicate things. Simplify.
Disregard everything that is unnecessary.

A warrior must be willing to and ready to make his last stand here and now.
Apply all the concentration you have to decide whether or not to enter battle,
for any battle is a battle for one’s life.

Relax, abandon yourself, fear nothing.
Only then will the powers that guide us open the road and aid us.

When faced with odds that cannot be dealt with,
warriors retreat for a moment;
they occupy their time with something else.

Warriors compress time; even an instant counts.
In a battle for your life a second is an eternity;
an eternity that may decide the outcome.
Warriors aim at succeeding,
therefore they compress time.
Warriors don’t waste an instant.
Carlos Castaneda

To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent persons
and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty;
to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better,
whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Well, the answer is no and it's probably been pretty unfortunate"
--Warren Buffett at the 1998 Berkshire Hathaway meeting on whether he would ever consider investing in the technology group at some point in the future.



"An investor will succeed by coupling good business judgment with an ability to insulate his thoughts and behavior from the super-contagious emotions that swirl about the marketplace."
--Warren Buffett



"I think as a group they're good businesses [the pharmaceutical companies]. On the other hand, I do think that it's very hard to pick out the winner. So, if I were to buy them, I'd buy a group of the leading companies."
--Warren Buffett (from: "Outstanding Investors Digest")



"I have learned more about how the new international financial system works in the last 12 months than in the previous 20 years."
--Alan Greenspan (December 1998)



“Globalization is not just a trend, not just a phenomenon, not just an economic fad. It is the international system that has replaced the cold-war system.”
--Thomas Friedman
(The Lexus and the Olive Tree)



"What could be more advantageous in an intellectual contest--whether it be bridge, chess or stock selection--than to have opponents who have been taught that thinking is a waste of energy."
--Warren Buffett
(Berkshire Hathaway 1985 Annual Report)



"We are moving from a world in which the big eat the small to a world in which the fast eat the slow."
--Klaus Schwab, World Economic Forum



"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of crowds."
--Sir Isaac Newton



"The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them."
--Peter Lynch (from: "Beating the Street")



"We used to live in the age of market share. Increasingly, it's mind share that matters--with customers, with investors, with talent."
--Adrian Slywotzky
(author of "Profit Patterns")



"Humans have a great propensity to panic, especially over imaginary dangers. It may be that the degree of panic is in inverse proportion to the actual danger"
--Adrian Berry
(author of "The Next 500 Years")



"Buy when there is blood in the streets."
--Baron Von Rothschild

You must unlearn what you have learned."
--Yoda



"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one that is most adaptable to change."
--Charles Darwin



"The people who master the new science of Complexity will become the economic, cultural, and political superpower of the next century."
--Heinz Pagels (The Dreams of Reason, 1988)



"At least three inventions in the past—language, writing, and printing—had effects that were very similar to today’s computer revolution. Each of these inventions decreased the effort and cost required to produce, store, and distribute information, thereby causing an information explosion very similar to the one being created today by computer technology. Each is closely associated with the beginning of a fundamentally new form of human society. The computer could be the invention that will change civilization to a degree not seen since the Renaissance, the time of the last great revolution in information handling."
--Douglas S. Robertson
(The New Renaissance: Computers and the Next Level of Civilization)



"The telecosm—the universe of communications and computers—is expanding faster than any other technocosm has ever expanded before. It is the telephone unleashed, the personal computer connected, and the television brought down to human scale at last. Its capacity to carry information has expanded a millionfold in the last decade or two. It will expand another millionfold in our lifetime—or perhaps a billionfold. No one really knows. The only certainty is that the change will be enormous."
--Peter Huber
(Law and Disorder in Cyberspace)



"The new economy is about communication, deep and wide…Communication is the foundation of society, of our culture, of our humanity, of our own individual identity, and of all economic systems. This is why networks are such a big deal. Communication, and its ally computers, is a special case in economic history. Not because it happens to be the fashionable leading business sector of our day, but because it’s cultural, technological, and conceptual impacts reverberate at the root of our lives."
--Kevin Kelly
(New Rules for the New Economy)



"Realize this is only the beginning. Home networks are emerging. Wireless broadband is looming. Voice and data networks are converging. Within five years, data will account for about 70% of all Telecom traffic. The implications are breathtaking. Office buildings bathed in an ether of high-speed wireless data. Plummeting long distance rates. Musical instruments played across the Internet. Voice, data, video, and audio--all coming down the same pipe. Each accounted for and billed separately. Change without precedent. Business opportunity galore."
--WIRED Magazine (April 1999, "The Next Net")



"The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, the best way to put distance between you and the crowd, is to do an outstanding job with information."
--Bill Gates





"Innovation is multiplicative, not additive. Technology, like any evolutionary process, builds on itself. This aspect will continue to accelerate when the technology itself takes full control of its own progression."
--Ray Kurzweil
(Author of "The Age of Spiritual Machines")



"Broadband is going to be extremely helpful in making the shopping experience online ever more useful and more engaging."
--Jeff Bezos
Founder and CEO
Amazon.com



"The most important surprises of the next fifty years are likely to come from the internet and the genome."
--Freeman J. Dyson



"One thing is certain about the century ahead. The pace of discovery is sure to be even faster than it is today and the social and ethical dilemmas created by the exploitation of new knowledge even more haunting."
--Sir John Maddox



“We think the 21st century will be about image communication, not voice and data. A video server-based network on broadband IP protocol is where we think communications needs to go.”
--Joe Nacchio
CEO
Qwest Communications



“By 2005, there will be more mobile devices connected to the Internet than fixed terminals.”
--Jan Ahrenbring
Ericsson



“The symbol of the cold-war was a wall, which divided everyone. The symbol of globalization system is the World Wide Web, which unites everyone.”
--Thomas Friedman



"Silicon intelligence is going to evolve to the point where it’ll get hard to tell computers from human beings."
--Gordon Moore, chairman emeritus, Intel Corp.



"We will have the raw computing power of the human brain—about 100 billion neurons and 100 trillion connections—in a $1,000 PC by around 2019…By 2030, a $1,000 computer system will have the power of a thousand human brains; by 2050, a billion human brains."
--Raymond Kurzweil, President, Kurzweil Technologies Inc.



"Exponentials start slowly and remain disarmingly out of sight. Yet they build strength relentlessly until they've grown too large to ignore. By then, whole industries have changed and whole cultures have fallen."
--James Gleick



"Our number one, two, three, and four priorities are the Internet and digital commerce."
--Jack Welch, CEO GE (1999)



"Computer and telecommunication technologies are creating a fundamentally new infrastructure upon which our twenty-first-century world will be based."
--Schwartz, Leyden and Hyatt (The Long Boom)



"Cybernetics is clearly the most futuristic, exciting and open field to get involved in at the present time. It is pushing back the boundaries of science fiction, never mind science."
--Kevin Warwick, Professor of Cybernetics, University of Reading



"This is clearly the biggest revolution in business in our lifetimes."
--Jack Welch on e-commerce



"We are only in the nascent stages of a sea of change in our society; a change that was stimulated by a communications revolution. This shift is happening at a dizzying pace that will be sustained for many years to come. Equipment upgrade cycles are expected to continue over the next 25 years as new Internet content and applications consume available bandwidth."
--James Diller and Robert Bailey, PMC-Sierra Chairman and CEO, respectively



"We are on the first letter of the first word of the first sentence of the book of global interconnectivity"
--Andrew Zolli, Cybervisionary (1999)



"We are forming cells within a global brain, a place where the whim of a human being and the reasoning of a machine coexist."
--Tim Berners Lee



"We are now building communications machines that also compute vs. computing machines that happen to communicate."
--Mark Anderson, President, Strategic News Service



"The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not political or economic but technological--technologies that flowed directly from advances in basic science."
--Stephen Hawking




"The whole industrial revolution (of the 18th century) would almost have been impossible without the development of science."
--Richard P. Feynman (from: "The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist")



"Fuel cells will end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine."
--William Clay Ford, Chairman, Ford Motor Company



"Our vision is to create the next Intel and provide fuel cell technology to the world. The fuel cell has as many applications as your mind can imagine. Think about when the microprocessor was invented. The fuel cell will transform the world in many ways, turn a lot of things on their heads."
--Firoz Rasul, President and CEO, Ballard Systems



"It is a curious observation that societies on the threshold of disaster tend to be more optimistic than those that are flourishing."
--Adrian Berry
(author of "The Next 500 Years")



"Organizations' ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage."
--Jack Welch



"Priorities, competitive advantage, competitive situations change with a speed we've never seen before. Decision making, therefore, must change at a speed we've never seen before."
--David Pottruck, Co-CEO, Charles Schwab



"In the nineteenth century, life was transformed by the conscious application of classical mechanics, in the form of Newton's equations (and, later, thermodynamics) to the engines of the industrial revolution. In this century, a similar transformation has been wrought by electromagnetism, in generating and distributing electric power and communicating words and pictures across the world at the speed of light, in what should be seen as the conscious application of Maxwell's equations. It is easy to predict that in the twenty-first century it will be quantum mechanics that influences all our lives."
--Michael Berry, Introduction to "Introduction to Quantum Computation and Information"



"The only incentive to produce anything is the possession of temporary monopoly power--because without that power the price will be bid down to marginal cost and the high initial fixed costs cannot be recouped. So the constant pursuit of that monopoly power becomes the central driving thrust of the new economy. And the creative destruction that results from all that striving becomes the essential spur of economic growth."
--Larry Summers, US Treasury Secretary



"We don't look at W.A.C.C. or Cost of Equity. In this business, returns are infinite or negative."
--Howard Graham, CFO Siebel Systems



"When the Soviet Union produces 50 million tons of pig iron, 60 million tons of steel, 500 million tons of coal, and 60 million tons of oil, we will be guaranteed against any misfortune."
--Joseph Stalin, February 1946



"To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour."
--William Blake, Auguries of Innocence (c. 1803)