"The beginning of wisdom is to expect the unexpected."
-Peggy Noonan

"I have been to a [oil] Refinery many, many times. They are amazing places. To think that someone finds some dirty black sh-- in remote places, deep down below the surface, gets it out, transports it to a central location, turns it into clean-burning stuff that literally makes our world work, and delivers it to convenient places all over, all for a couple bucks a gallon is amazing. Amazing. Yes, amazing."
-Greeps (http://riddle13.blogspot.com)

"Humans are all about exploration. That's what hooks us. We want to see what's on the other side of the hill."
-John Dailey (Director, National Air & Space Museum)

Mortality

"Perhaps the cruelest wish a man might be granted – were there some bottled genie passing out such favors – is knowledge of his own future."
-Dr. Bob (http://docisinblog.com)

"If everything is under control, you are going too slow."
-Mario Andretti

"The secret to occupational happiness is tricking others into paying you to do things you would probably do for free."

"You must continue to follow [the preceding] principle until you save enough money to pay people to do all the things you don’t like to do."

-Mike Adams

"...the process of innovation is not simply an act. It is not just design, or market analysis, or investment, or entrepreneurship, or the intricacies that intervene between the concept and the marketplace. It is all of these, a complex sequence of steps. And it is all the more complex because there is nothing automatic about it. The engines of innovation are human beings."
-Daniel V. De Simone

"Only this is clear: our civilization will eventually settle amongst the stars -- or there won't be a civilization. If we linger on earth for too long, we will either destroy ourselves or, perhaps worse, snuff out the sparks of freedom and creativity that distinguish us from the sludge. [...] Oftentimes, liberty consists of having another place to go. That's the story of most people wholive in this country; our ancestors came here looking for unfettered freedom and opportunity, and they found it. [...] the best way to preserve freedom is to expand the empire of liberty in as many directions as possible -- especially upward [in space]. [...] the dead hand of government will always encroach on any given patch of territory -- and so the key to freedom is for free people to stay one step ahead of the encroachers."
-James Pinkerton

"Some ideas seem so plausible that they can fail nine times in a row and still be believed the tenth time. Other ideas seem so implausible that they can succeed nine times in a row and still not be believed the tenth time. Government controls in the economy are among the first kinds of ideas and the operation of a free market is among the second kinds of ideas."
-Thomas Sowell