[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different faiths could live together.
But today the quickest way to save your bottom line is to cut off research.
I would have been fired a hundred times at a company run by M. B. A. ’s. But I never went into business to make money. I went into business so that I could do interesting things that hadn’t been done before.
If you think something is impossible, don't disturb the person who is doing it!
There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.
Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.
No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.
The NFL today has bigger, stronger, bodies than ever, moving faster than ever, hitting a stationary object harder than ever before - so the physics of the hit have changed.
In the long run, it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.
My job is not only to give medals, you know, which certainly is part of my function. First and foremost, though, my job is about ensuring success of the work in various spheres. It is a kind of day-to-day spadework.
Winning Wimbledon, I can't get my head around that. I still can't believe it's happened.