#ka

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#backwards #connect #destiny #difference #dots

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#breakthrough #buy #communications #compelling #computer

I cannot understand why you should wish to leave this beautiful country and go back to the dry, gray place you call Kansas." "That is because you have no brains," answered the girl. "No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home." The Scarecrow sighed. "Of course I cannot understand it," he said. "If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains. ↗

— L. Frank Baum

#kansas #oz #beauty

Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#barn #build #carpenter #down #good

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#being #jackass #like #nothing #president

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#caught #got #hail #i #jackass

I used to have to force myself to go, okay, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing and then all of a sudden a thought of some where could come in. Now I can just focus and not think about anything. So, yeah, I guess I do that a lot. ↗

— Nancy Johnson

#anything #come #could #focus #force

A lot of the things that until now seemed unthinkable are starting to be thinkable. ↗

— Nick Johnson

#now #seemed #starting #things #thinkable

Well, a lot of our concerts do okay, and I know we still get royalty checks which still isn't that important, but again, I have to just say that we're making our records. ↗

— Bruce Johnston

#checks #concerts #get #i #important

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#hot #hot water #ice #into #language