Steve Jobs·2010I grow little of the food I eat, and of the little I do grow I did not breed or perfect the seeds. I do not make any of my own clothing. I speak a language I did not invent or refine. I did not discover the mathematics I use. I am protected by freedoms and laws I did not conceive of or legislate, and do not enforce or adjudicate. I am moved by music I did not create myself. When I needed medical attention, I was helpless to help myself survive. I did not invent the transistor, the microprocessor, object oriented programming, or most of the technology I work with. I love and admire my species, living and dead, and am totally dependent on them for my life and well being.
Fyodor Dostoevsky·1864The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano-key!
Michel de Montaigne·1580Every man carries the entire form of the human condition within him.
