Arnold Bennett

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. ~Arnold Bennett

Norman Vincent Peale (1898 – 1993)

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. ~Norman Vincent Peale (1898 – 1993)

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. ~Henri-Frédéric Amiel

unknown, Popular Mechanics, March 1949

Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons. ~unknown, Popular Mechanics, March 1949