Whenever we propose a solution to a problem, we ought to try as hard as we can to overthrow our solution, rather than defend it.

Karl Popper

Here’s how Apple does marketing in a nutshell: Make a great product, then let people know about it. That’s it. Neither aspect of that is easy, but the important thing is it has to happen in that order. It all starts with a great product.

John Gruber

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

Ray Bradbury

You're not as good as you could be - you just don't know it yet.

Unknown

Be true to yourself.

Unknown

It is not the size of the dog in the fight. It is the size of the fight in the dog.

Mark Twain

Do not undertake the program unless the goal is manifestly important and its achievement nearly impossible. Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.

Edwin Land

Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight?" The Brain: "The same thing we do every night, Pinky—try to take over the world!

Pinky and the Brain

The easiest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.

Charlie Munger

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

Jack Welch

It was not the miners that profited the most from the Gold Rush. It was the companies that sold them the shovels.

Unknown

Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they think with their hands and their brains. They're experts in design, engineering and business.

Sir James Dyson

Rough consensus, running code.

Internet Engineering Task Force

There’s nothing more dangerous than a man with one idea. You’re not going to let go or fairly evaluate it because it’s your only idea.

Bruce Lund, inventor

Community is more important than code.

Apache Labs

People don't want choices, they want exactly what they want.

Joe Pine

The waves that form in the tech business are the asymmetric weapon of the startup.

Mike Maples