"You would make a ship sail against..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“In war you see your own troubles; those of the enemy you cannot see. You must show confidence.”

“So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.”

“But it is at home and not in public that one should wash ones dirty linen.[Fr., Car c'est en famille, ce n'est pas en public, qu'un lave son linge sale.]”

“I was always afraid of things that worked the first time. Long experience proved that there were great drawbacks found generally before they could be got commercial; but here was something there was no doubt of.”

“If we [the USA] don't innovate in education, it's literally going to mean less people get to go have that education at a time when more people are going to want it. We've got to put courses out on the Web, we've got to put interactive learning out on the Web.”

“All human progress is preceded by new questions”

“Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.”

“Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.”

“What we need is progress with an escape hatch.”