"All progress depends upon the unreasonable person...." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.”

“The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.”

“What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.”

“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science, and such is the mechanical determination of our age, and so recent are our best contrivances, that use has not dulled our joy and pride in them. These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a godlike ease and power.”

“Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us arerushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.”

“When someone sticks a knife six inches into your back, and then pulls it out two inches and claims he's doing you a favor, don't believe him.”

“My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.”

“Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.”

“Be wary of technology; it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end.”