What they call Originality is achieved by getting down to the root-principle underlying the practice. From that origin you think your way back to the surface, where you may find you're breaking untrodden ground.
—Stanley Morison, type historian and designer of Times New Roman

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
—Howard Aiken, computer pioneer

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
—H.L. Mencken, cranky guy