“You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it.”
Keith Richards (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones
Source: Horns
“You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it.”
Keith Richards (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones
Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847) Scottish mathematician and a leader of the Free Church of Scotland
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 497.
Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
Interview with Inc. Magazine for its "The Entrepreneur of the Decade Award" (1 April 1989) http://www.inc.com/magazine/19890401/5602.html <br class="br">1980s <br class="br">Variant: You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Erik Naggum (1965–2009) Norwegian computer programmer
Re: creation of lisp machine/lispOS http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/c2fd86a7e43ac7aa (Usenet article). <br class="br">Usenet articles, Miscellaneous
Mark Driscoll (1970) American pastor
Rebel's Guide to Joy http://www.marshillchurch.org/media/rebels-guide-to-joy/the-rebels-guide-to-joy.
Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) early Christian theologian and philosopher
Earliest attribution found in Who Said That?: More than 2,500 Usable Quotes and Illustrations https://books.google.nl/books?id=7mn8AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT63 (1995) by George Sweeting. Online sources always attribute the quote to Augustine, but never specify in which of his works it is to be found. <br class="br">Disputed