Vision

Vision is not an image fully formed. Vision is knowing where to look without necessarily knowing what to look for. Vision is the ability to see the trail of breadcrumbs, and the strength and conviction necessary to follow that trail despite not knowing where it leads.

– Paul Buchheit

Focus and Simplicity

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

– Steve Jobs

Science

There is nothing like “basic science” and “applied science”. There is only science and its application.

– Louis Pasteur

…a fourth rate lecturer, who cannot speak good grammar.

The New York Herald (May 19 1860) describing Abraham Lincoln