Records can be destroyed if they do not suit the prejudices of ruling cliques, lost if they become incomprehensible, distorted if a copyist wishes to impose a new meaning upon them, misunderstood if we lack the information to interpret them. The past is like a huge library, mostly fiction.

The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them.

The workingmen have been exploited all the way up and down the line by employers, landlords, everybody.

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

I could use a hundred people who don't know there is such a word as impossible.