"Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it."
— Bruce Lee (Tao of Jeet Kune Do)

"The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him."
— Miyamoto Musashi (The Book of Five Rings)

"...I do not want art for a few; any more than education for a few; or freedom for a few... "
— William Morris

"In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile "
— Isaac Asimov (Robot Visions)

"Give a poet a pen"
— A. Jarrell Hayes

"Many native traditions held clowns and tricksters as essential to any contact with the sacred. People could not pray until they had laughed, because laughter opens and frees from rigid preconception. Humans had to have tricksters within the most sacred ceremonies for fear that they forget the sacred comes through upset, reversal, surprise. The trickster in most native traditions is essential to creation, to birth."
— Byrd Gibbens