The work of thought is one of the most ancient and useful activities of humankind. To generate thought is to create life, lifeliness, community. Consensus isn’t important. What’s important is how the generative power of our thought makes life vivid and burns out the dead brush, dead thoughts, dead institutions. -- Michael Ventura
Genius is applying the originality of youth to the experience of maturity. -- Michael Polanyi
Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing." -- Dick Brandon
"Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the costs become prohibitive" -- William Buckley Jr.
"Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born." -- Neal Stephenson
"Believe it or not, the Internet is actually under-hyped..."We are co-conspirators in the largest, legal creation of new wealth, primarily in Internet companies." -- L. John Doerr
"Perpetual growth is the creed of the cancer cell." -- Edward Abbey
"Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior." — Dee Hock
"The cracked ones let in the light" -- Tom Peters
"The only way to be truly creative is to never repeat yourself" — Rob Breszny
“We don’t have a good language to talk about this kind of thing. In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. … But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation.” -- Steve Jobs
The corporation as we know it, which is now 120 years old, is unlikely to survive the next 25 years. Legally and financially yes, but not structurally and economically. -- Peter Drucker
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. -- Michelangelo