…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

When someone asks how is your wife, I ask: “Compared to what?”

:Jack making a point that everything is relative.