“That evening I went for a walk in town, and came upon a small crowd of people standing around a great big rectangular hole in the toad – it had been dug for sewer pipes, or something – and there, sitting exactly in the hole, was a car. It was marvelous: it fitted absolutely perfectly, with its roof level with the road. The workmen hadn’t bothered to put up any signs at the end of the day, and the guy had simply driven into it. I noticed a difference: When we’ddig a hole, there’d be all kinds of detour signs and flashing lights to protect us. There, they dig the hole, and when they’re finished for the day, they just leave.”

:Richar Feynman in O Americano, Outra Vez! in Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman. Brazil sounds a lot like India!

…you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.

:Richard Feyman in The 7 Percent Solution in Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman.

“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish”

:Richard Feynman in The Dignified Professor in Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman – when he realized that he was trying to live up to other people’s exceptations. A realization which to me as as fundamental as any other discovery by Feynman.

“You don’t have to be responsible for the world that you’re in”

:Advice given by John Von Neumann to Richard Feynman as quoted in Los Alamos from Below in Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman

“If the product was perfect, we wouldn’t need sales people.”

:Scott, making a good point about sales