Fragments of Clarity

“I may have written sendmail to solve a local problem at Berkeley, but I continued working on it because I saw that e-mail was going to change the world - or rather, continue to change it - and I felt that change was going to be fundamentally positive, and that sendmail was a big part of that change.”

–Eric Allman

“Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats. ”

–Howard Aiken

“My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.”

–Jean Rostand

“To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.”

–Jean Rostand 

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”

–Niels Bohr

“To invent you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”

–Thomas Edison