The past is never dead. It's not even past.

Change will lead to inspiration far more often than inspiration will lead to change.

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

It's probably as unlikely that you would nowadays become as rich and famous as Bill Gates, as it was unlikely in the17th century that you would accede to the ranks of the French aristocracy. But the point is, it doesn't feel that way. It's made to feel, by magazines and other media outlets, that if you've got energy, a few bright ideas about technology, a garage -- you, too, could start a major thing.