If you want to kick the tiger in his ass you'd better have a plan for dealing with his teeth

An overnight success is ten years in the making.

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not... Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it... Because the dream is within you. No one can take your dream away.

Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.

I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.

And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and on missions which they all mistakenly thought they understood. That was just as well. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected, illusory finish lines were things fated by the decisions made this morning -- and, once decided, best unseen.

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.