• You should dig a well before you are thirsty. (Gerry Turcotte, President of the Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC), the agency of the Canadian federal government's Industry Canada responsible for conducting applied research and development in communications and related technologies.)

• The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one doing the work. (Unknown source)
• Well-informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that, were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value. (From an 1865 editorial in the Boston Post, applauding the arrest of Joshua Coopersmith, who had been attempting to raise funds to develop a telephone. Quotted by Denzil Doyle in his excellent entrepreneurial book Making Technology Happen)
• One rarely does well what one rarely does. (St Francis de Sales. [Born August 21, 1567, into a family of nobility, he was educated by the Jesuits where he earned a Doctorate in both Civil and Church Law.])
• It matters little how one begins, provided that he be resolved to go on well, and to end well. (St Francis de Sales.)
• We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvable problems. (Unknown source)
• The easiest way to predict the future is to invent it. (Palo Alto Research Center (PARC))
• You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to loose sight of the shore. (Unknown source)
• Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, "We've always done it this way". I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock that runs counter-clockwise. (Rear Admiral Grace Hooper, mathematician, computer scientist, teacher. Her many accomplishments include the invention of the first computer compiler which formed the basis of COBOL, and the person who coined the term computer bug.) 1906-1994)
• It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one that is most adaptable to change. (Charles Darwin)
• Change requires individuals who recognize that new things can be done and who take the initiative to get them done ... The existing bureaucracies, public and private, will not take on the job of changing what is. (Lester Thurow in his book Building Wealth.)
• You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. (Grace Hooper)
• The future is here -- it just has not been uniformly distributed. (William Gibson)
• The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. (Lily Tomlin)
• No matter how absurd I try to make the Dilbert comic strip I can't stay ahead of what people are actually experiencing in their own workplaces. (Scott Adams in his book The Dilbert Principle page 1)
• If you're one in a million, there are about 6,600 other people just like you -- and about 1500 of them are on the Internet. (Hal Rubenstein in his book Paisley Goes with Nothing. Updated for the Internet by Roy Miller. (Original quote updated for current world population and the number of people on the Internet from InternetWorldStats.com)
• Computing is not about computers anymore. (Nicholas Negroponte in his book Being Digital. The book is also available on audio tape.)
• Long distances used to be a moat that both insulated and isolated people from workers on the other side of the world. But every day, technology narrows that moat inch by inch. Every person in the world is on the verge of becoming both a coworker and a competitor to every one of us ... Technological change is going to reach out and sooner or later change something fundamental in your business world. (Andrew S. Grove, President and CEO of Intel Corporation, from his book Only the Paranoid Survive page 5.) The book is also available on audio tape.)
• Get Innovative or Get Dead! (Title of book by Matthew J. Kiernan which includes many other quotable phrases.)
• To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. (Thomas Edison)
• All the atoms we are made of are forged from hydrogen in stars that died and exploded before our solar system formed. So if you are romantic, you can say we are literally stardust. If you are less romantic, you can say we're the nuclear waste from fuel that makes stars shine." (Sir Martin Rees, Britian's astronomer royal.)
• Stay clear of foolish discussions which lead into the sin of anger with each other (2 Timothy 2:16)
• Imagine if your had been born in a completely different country. You would probably speak a different language and have a different religion. You'd like different people, different foods. Maybe you'd hate all the people you now like. In short, you'd be completely different person but it would still be "you." (Jim Unger, from his cartoon collection The Best of Herman, page 61.)
• It is our nature to yearn for change; adapting to it is what we fear. Chaos does not loom over our future, only our own fears do. But those willing to think the unthinkable will see opportunity rather than chaos, and fortune rather than fear. Such individuals will know how to navigate to the next millennium. (Frank Ogden, from his book Navigating in Cyberspace: A guide to the next millennium. page 11. Text is also on CD-ROM at the back of the bound book.)
• From the classroom perspective, the computer is not a tool to automate teaching but an environment in which students can learn and develop their cognitive skills through exploration and discovery.

  In the world of work, the computer is not just a tool to increase productivity but a learning environment in which employees continuously develop their information-processing and communications skills. (Robert K. Logan from his book The Fifth Language: Learning a Living in the Computer Age page 9.)

• In real estate the motto is "location, location, location". On the Internet if location matters then something is wrong. (Roy Miller)
• Eye awl wheeze Czech four hypos inn may massages. Donut ewe? Thinks two spelt chequers its sew essay! (Roy Miller)

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