Martin Svoboda

“Because when I was young and I'd get an A on a history test.. or whatever.. I'd get this good feeling about all the things that I could be. And then I never became any of them.”

“Sometimes to achieve greatness, you do, you have to cut off a little piece of yourself no matter how much it hurts, in order to grow, in order to move on. It takes courage and I admire that, you know?”

“Nobody cares, nobody cares. You worry about yourself, your family and the people that are important to you.”

“Value loyalty above all else.”

“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.”

“Not one scar on my heart came from the enemy. They all came from people who said they "loved" me.”

“We work jobs that we hate, to buy things we don't need, to impress people we don't like.”

“Solve customer problems and make sure that the customer is representative of a large market and then you will have a pretty good formula.”

“Anyone can have a solution but if no one cares about it, unfortunately, you are not going to have a very big company.”

“The rejection is often not because of the reasons you think they are rejecting you.”

“Plant lots and lots of seeds and hopefully one will grow!”

“If you are determined and want it, you can just go for it.”

“Been drinking 3 weeks in a row just to forget
About the pain and the tears and the shame and the fears
And I blame her for these but she ain’t really here
She walked away”

“A king fortifies himself with a castle, a gentleman with a desk.”

“Enjoy your problems.”

“The earth is free even now for great souls. There are still empty seats for the lonesome and the twosome, fanned by the fragrance of silent seas. A free life is still free for great souls. Do you not see it, the rainbow and the bridges. Thus spoke Zarathustra.”

“I think it's terribly dangerous for an artist to fulfill other people's expectations. I think they generally produce their worst work when they do that.”

“If we are going to use this top-down approach, we are going to have to be bold. We are going to have to be speculative, but there is good and bad speculation, and this is not an unparalleled activity in science. … Those scientists who have no taste for this sort of speculative enterprise will just have to stay in the trenches and do without it, while the rest of us risk embarrassing mistakes and have a lot of fun.”

“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”