Innovating Capital Quotes

#1. The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

Howard Aiken

#2. I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me.

Albert Einstein

#3. Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

Michel Foucault

#4. There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.

Werner Herzog

#5. The bad leader is he who the people despise; the good leader is he who the people praise; the great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves

Peter M. Senge

#6. They managed to find time ... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.

C.S. Forester

#7. We have to be in the present time, because only the present is real, only in the present can we be alive. We do not practice for the sake of the future, to be reborn in a paradise, but to be peace, to be compassion, to be joy right now.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#8. Much spends the traveller, more then the abider.

George Herbert

#9. I've had such extremes in my life. From being this kind of wild kid, to one year studying to be a Franciscan priest at the seminary ... I was very frustrated.

Tom Cruise

#10. Far from rejecting outright any hierarchy of success or failure, philosophy instead reconfigures the judging process, lending legitimacy to theidea that themainstream value system may unfairly consign some people to disgrace and others to respectability.

Alain De Botton

#11. Personally, no matter how tempting it might be, I make it a policy not to surgically bestow near invincibility upon the people who would most like to see me dead.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes