robotnic’s most recent Quotables

Great journalism does not get enough credit in our society, but it holds the powerful to account and plays a vital part in a functioning democracy.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings.

When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down.

Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Remember what a startup is, economically: a way of saying, I want to work faster. Instead of accumulating money slowly by being paid a regular wage for fifty years, I want...as soon as possible. So governments that forbid you to accumulate wealth are in effect decreeing that you work slowly. ...let you earn $3 million over fifty years, but they're not willing to let you work so hard that you can do it in two.

Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.

If you are not in America fast enough, it must have failed. When there is another thing like, maybe I don't want to go to America. I mean, it's not SO great there anyway...

C.C. Baxter: You hear what I said, Miss Kubelik? I absolutely adore you.
Fran Kubelik: Shut up and deal...

They're probably watching me. Well, let them. Let them see what kind of a person I am. I'm not even going to swat that fly. I hope they are watching... they'll see. They'll see and they'll know, and they'll say, "Why, she wouldn't even harm a fly..."

Go get 'em, champ. I'm da boss...