For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. Feynman 

Fortune favors the brave.
Terence 

Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe! (Very wise is he that can know himself.)
Chaucer 

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Josh Billings 

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
George-Louis De Buffon 

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Edison 

Genius is patience.
Buffon 

Good order is the foundation of all things.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) 

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Herodotus 

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
Thomas Arnold Bennett