PART 1

Back to the Future

THE LEGACY OF THE VISIONARIES

The resistance to a new idea is in proportion to the idea’s importance.

BRIAN O’LEARY

Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I work, is mine.

NIKOLA TESLA

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth, if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven thread by thread into the fabric of their lives.

LEO TOLSTOY

Most qualified scientists shy away from things that are not generally accepted, and there is justification for their viewpoint. They are not frontiersmen. They are maintenance men for the existing order.

TREVOR JAMES CONSTABLE

We undoubtedly have in our brains some finer fibers which enable us to perceive truths which we could not attain through logical deductions, and which it would be futile to attempt to achieve through any willful effort of thinking.

NIKOLA TESLA

The intuition which guides all advanced thinkers into the newer fields of learning, is but the forerunner of that omniscience which characterizes the soul.

DJWHAL KHUL

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, awake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

T. E. LAWRENCE

The one requirement coupled with the gift of truth is its use.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON