Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

Never underestimate the enemy, above all if he is a stupid one and deserves to be killed.

Political parties in Italy are so stupid and expensive that they deserve to be abolished.

A stupid disgusting bore is a guy who has nothing to say, and nonetheless says it anyway.

It's really important that we have an improvement curve on fuel mileage and CO2 reduction.

Judging by my degradation in the last 24 hours, I'll be surprised if I make it to Tuesday.

Week by week my orders grew, and the flat of the old mill soon assumed a very busy aspect.

What I want to do has no end, since I am on the endless frontier of a branch of knowledge.

There were different challenges along the way. Certainly the food shortage was unpleasant.

You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.

I love technology, and I don't think it's something that should divide along gender lines.

To succeed at re-engineering, you have to be a missionary, a motivator, and a leg breaker.

We all live in a small unique world, that's why we need at least one sole common language.

Rule of law, access to justice, and financial transparency happen by design, not accident.

You are not going to lift everybody out of poverty through the kindness of wealthy people.

Investing in vital infrastructure will help to build more sustainable, equitable economies.

Whatever your interests or abilities, I encourage you stay active during the holiday season.

I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades.

The economic function of space industrialization is to generate jobs on Earth, not in space.

Find something you're passionate about and just love. Passion is really gender neutralizing.

You're very well trained for the spacewalk, so when you go outside, it's not like the movies.

People who talk of outlawing the atomic bomb are mistaken - what needs to be outlawed is war.

What is clear is that users own their data and should have control of how their data is used.

The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence.

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.

My life has been varied, involving many jobs, but I have always been impatient with injustice.

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape.

Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place.

My dream is that Participant is producing content in every language in every part of the world.

On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work!

Life is nothing but a bet that in the end everyone is doomed to lose. So you'd better get used!

Whatever we do toward energy independence has to be done in the context of using less resources.

We want people to still have choices - Ford cars and trucks, whatever works for their lifestyle.

The purpose of life is to love and be loved... what could possibly be more energizing than that?

I really like working with talented people to do something for a lot of people around our world.

A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science.

We built a jet airplane to get in and out of a 5,000-ft field. No one believed it could be done.

Definitely you don't become famous by doing something bad; that's a professional death sentence.

I will take every constructive criticism, make it my own, learn from my mistake, and go forward.

The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.

Successful visionaries start from where they are, what they have, and what their customers have.

Communism has failed; capitalism has failed; common sense has failed; now has to fail stupidity.

I was the lead designer and the general manager of the triple 7 and, of course, the dynamite 787.

If you cannot saw with a file or file with a saw, then you will be no good as an experimentalist.

A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.

Trading is more or less like betting or gambling, but only without the pleasure show of the game.

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