“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship’s sake.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

Fiery the Angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll’d Around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

I will not reason and compare my business is to create.

We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.

Opposition is true Friendship.

The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.

A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.

Exuberance is beauty.

Without Contraries is no Progression.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.

Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.

Learn continually – there’s always “one more thing” to learn!

Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.

Move fast, take risks, it’s okay to try big things you’re better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than having not done anything at all.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

Dream big. Start small. But most of all, start.

Every great movement in the world starts with a tiny group of people who simply refuse to accept a situation.