“To evaluate whether someone can do the job, the best predictor of that is to have them do the job.”

–Shawn Graham, Associate Director, MBA Career Management Center

“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

“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

“People give up when the world seems to be against them, but that’s the point when you should push.”

–James Dyson

“…The A students work for the B students, the C students run the companies, and the D students dedicate the buildings.”

–The Mother of Paul Orfalea, Founder of Kinko’s

“…All life represents a risk, and the more lovingly we live our lives, the more risks we take.”

–M. Scott Peck

“No great task will ever be undertaken if all possible objections must first be overcome.”

–Nathan Cummings

“I want to tell you one reason why I’m sure I love you.  There are people we can be around, and we take them for granted sometimes, and who make us feel generous and kind and even smarter and more clever than we probably are–and successful in our own terms and the world’s.  They are the ideal people. . . And that’s who you are for me.”

–Richard Ford