It is not hard to compose, but it is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table.

Those who enjoy their own emotionally expressive playing will never learn what is known as 'playing'.

If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.

Cook Ding was carving an ox for Lord Wenhui. His hand touched, his shoulder leaned, his foot stepped, his knee pressed — and with every swish and whistle the cleaver moved in perfect rhythm.

-- Zhuang Zhou

I want to use the power of technology to create things that serve the world.

-- Masaru Ibuka

An engineer is truly an engineer only when he creates something with his own hands.

-- Sōichirō Honda

Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.

-- Born in Halle

When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer... it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly.

-- Born in Salzburg in 1756

Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.

-- Born in Russia in 1840, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky