Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

Talkback to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

There is no knowledge that is not power.