Fulgora Software Ltd.

"In the last few years, we've stumbled. And when you stumble a lot you start looking at your feet. We have to make people lift their eyes back to the horizion and see the line of ancestors behind us saying, 'Make my life have meaning.' And to our inheritors before us saying, 'Create the world we will live in.' We're not just holding jobs and having dinner; we are in the process of building the future. Only by making people understand that can we create a better world for ourselves, and our posterity."
-- John Sheridan, Babylon 5

"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."
-- Sir Francis Bacon

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
-- Albert Einstein

"Human ingenuity, not government, solves the problem of scarcity. The nations in which poverty is greatest are those that restrain human ingenuity - that is, freedom - and punish initiative."
-- Wendy McElroy

"History teaches us that people and nations behave wisely only after they have exhausted all other alternatives."
-- Abba Eban

"I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm amoung my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe in giving a person incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise."
-- Charles Schwab
(one of the first American businessmen paid over a million dollars a year, in 1921)

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
-- Mark Twain

"Optimism is essential to achievement, and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress."
-- Nicolas Murray Butler

"In our marriages we go to all the bother of finding mates very unlike ourselves - in some cases exactly opposite in all respects - and then we pull out all the stops in our attempt to transform them in our own image."
-- David Keirsey, psychologist

"The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear."
-- Herbert Sebastian Agar

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

"More people give up than fail."
-- Henry Ford

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
-- Seneca - Roman philospher c. 4 BC - AD 65

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
-- Bertrand Russell

"Those who are literate but do not read have no advantage over those who are illiterate."
-- Mark Twain

"Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend."
-- Plautus - Roman playwright c. 254-184 BC

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try.'"
-- Yoda

"How much pain have cost us the evils that never happened?"
-- Thomas Jefferson

"It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority."
-- Benjamin Franklin

"Return to your first love. Many people allow life and its circumstances to get them off track. Think back to when you were just starting out in your career — or even farther back to when you were a child. What really turned your crank? What could you spend hours and hours doing? Try to recapture your old enthusiasm. Then evaluate your life and career in light of those old loves."
-- unknown

"If everything is imperfect in this imperfect world, love is most perfect in its perfect imperfection."
-- The Seventh Seal

"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it."
-- Mark Twain

"There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot."
-- Dilbert

"Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art."
-- Charles McCabe

"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge at you because you're a vegetarian."
-- Dennis Wholey

"Don't be afraid to try something new - the guy who built the ark was an amateur, the people who built the Titanic were professionals."
-- unknown

"If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself."
-- Mickey Mantle

"Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice."
-- Bill Cosby

"The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from."
-- unknown

"Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel."
-- Horace Walpole

"I love humanity; it's people I can't stand."
-- Linus, in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz

"The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."
-- Stephen Wright

"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines."
-- Stephen Wright

"A parent is only as good as their dumbest kid. If one wins a Nobel Prize but the other gets robbed by a hooker, you failed."
-- unknown