"The peculiar malaise of our day is air-conditioned unhappiness, the staleness and stuffiness of machine-made routine."

"If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."

"Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers."

"For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift."

"Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world."

"Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital."

"We are there to serve our subscribers, not serve them up."

"Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible."

"Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown."

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."