Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.

Howard Aiken, primary engineer behind the Harvard Mark I.

I must Create a System, or be enslav’d by another Man’s;
I will not Reason and Compare: my business is to Create.

“Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion“. William Blake.

No minister represents me better than me.

“Jura y Gana”. Mala Rodríguez.

Ultimately, for the Web to be a useful medium for social transactions, people must be able to trust other parties who have earned their trust. While technology cannot guarantee trust, it should enable secure transactions with trusted parties, be they people, organizations, or services. One of the long-term goals of W3C is thus to promote technologies that enable a more collaborative environment, a Web where accountability, security, confidence, and confidentiality are all possible, and where people participate according to their individual privacy requirements and preferences.

Ian Jacobs, Head of W3C Communications, in “W3C Goals“.

Grown-ups like numbers. When you tell them that you have made a new friend, they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you, “What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?” Instead, they demand: “How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make?” Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.

If you were to say to the grown-ups: “I saw a beautiful house made of rosy brick, with geraniums in the windows and doves on the roof,” they would not be able to get any idea of that house at all. You would have to say to them: “I saw a house that cost $20,000.” Then they would exclaim: “Oh, what a pretty house that is!”

“The Little Prince“. Antoine de Saint Exupéry.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Dwight D. Eisenhower.

And let it be noted that there is no more delicate matter to take in hand, nor more dangerous to conduct, nor more doubtful in its success, than to set up as the leader in the introduction of changes. For he who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order of things, and only lukewarm supporters in those who might be better off under the new. This lukewarmness arising partly from fear of their adversaries, who have the laws in their favour; and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had the actual experience of it.

Niccolò Machiavelli. The Prince. 1513.

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jPod, Douglas Coupland

Some men see things as they are and say ‘Why?’. I dream things that never were and say, ‘Why not?’

George Bernard Shaw

To protect the sheep you gotta catch the wolf, and it takes a wolf to catch a wolf. You understand?

Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington), Training Day