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120px; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 20px; position: absolute; width: 300px;">Welcome to science, technology, engineering, art, craft, math and design quote section of Adafruit! We collect quotes to inspire and spark imaginations. Got one? Let us know!</div> <p><img class="img-responsive" src="../images/quotes.jpg" alt="Illustration of Adabot saying 'Our Favorite Quotes', Mho saying 'Get Inspired', MOSFET saying 'meow'" /></p> <p class="mobile-text-wrapper"><b>The random quote in the footer on all pages is randomly chosen from this list.</b><br /><br />Subscribe to the <a href="http://www.adafruit.com/feed/quotes.xml">RSS Feed</a> to be notified whenever new quotes are added.</p></div> <ul id="quotes-list" aria-labelledby="page-name"> <li id="190">"If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marva_Collins">Marva Collins</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2024-11-26)</span> </li> <li id="189">"What we call the beginning is often the end . And to make and end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot">T. S. Eliot</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2022-07-11)</span> </li> <li id="188">"The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Osborne">Adam Osborne</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2022-06-14)</span> </li> <li id="187">"As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously." –<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/20203/20203-h/20203-h.htm">Benjamin Franklin</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2022-05-22)</span> </li> <li id="186">"Either I win or I learn" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela">Nelson Mandela</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2022-05-07)</span> </li> <li id="185">"Only through an inner spiritual transformation do we gain the strength to fight vigorously the evils of the world in a humble and loving spirit" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.">Martin Luther King Jr.</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2022-04-27)</span> </li> <li id="184">"A Certain Darkness Is Needed to See the Stars" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajneesh">Osho</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2022-04-18)</span> </li> <li id="183">"If I want to live in a world I like, I have to help create it" –<a href="https://www.adafruit.com/quotes">Caroline Caldwell</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2022-01-11)</span> </li> <li id="182">"Blowing out someone else's candle won't make yours shine brighter" –<a href="https://www.adafruit.com/quotes">Unknown</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2022-01-09)</span> </li> <li id="181">"I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before" –<a href="https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/01/07/sidney-poitier-who-paved-the-way-for-black-actors-in-film-dies-at-94/">Sidney Poitier</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2022-01-07)</span> </li> <li id="179">"Plans are worthless, but planning is everything" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2021-12-31)</span> </li> <li id="180">"Everybody needs a passion. That's what keeps life interesting. If you live without passion, you can go through life without leaving any footprints" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_White">Betty White</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2021-12-31)</span> </li> <li id="177">"Remember what the dormouse said: feed your head, feed your head" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rabbit_(song)">Grace Slick</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2021-12-25)</span> </li> <li id="178">"Take the tools in hand and carve your own best life" –<a href="https://archive.org/details/makemostofyourli00lurtrich">Douglas Lurton</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2021-12-25)</span> </li> <li id="176">"You just stand in the darkness until you can’t endure it any long, and then you move forward until you’re standing in the light" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Questlove">Ahmir Questlove Thompson</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2021-12-24)</span> </li> <li id="175">"When you destroy art, you make it stronger" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_Galschi%C3%B8t">Jens Galschiot</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2021-12-23)</span> </li> <li id="174">"Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ausonius#Saw_mill">Ausonius</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2021-12-17)</span> </li> <li id="173">"The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Chambers">Oswald Chambers</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2021-12-15)</span> </li> <li id="172">"Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Nye">Bill Nye</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2021-12-13)</span> </li> <li id="171">"Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pema_Ch%C3%B6dr%C3%B6n">Pema Chödrön</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2021-12-12)</span> </li> <li id="170">"It is not down on any map; true places never are" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville">Herman Melville ... JC</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2021-12-09)</span> </li> <li id="168">"Anything not saved will be lost" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_Not_Saved_Will_Be_Lost_%E2%80%93_Part_1#Album_artwork_and_title">Nintendo Wii 'Quit Screen'</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2021-12-07)</span> </li> <li id="169">"The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baden-Powell,_1st_Baron_Baden-Powell">Robert Baden-Powell</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2021-12-07)</span> </li> <li id="167">"Rather than being suffocated by the terrible things that are happening... wonder might stimulate the curiosity we need to work through those problems" –<a href="https://artreview.com/anna-l-tsing-on-creating-wonder-in-the-midst-of-dread/">Anna L. Tsing</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2021-12-05)</span> </li> <li id="166">"I don't want to be part of a world, where being kind is a weakness" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keanu_Reeves">Keanu Reeves</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2021-12-04)</span> </li> <li id="165">"The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_L._Sayers">Dorothy L. Sayers</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2021-11-27)</span> </li> <li id="164">"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee">Bruce Lee</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2021-06-29)</span> </li> <li id="163">"Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg">Ruth Bader Ginsburg</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2021-06-01)</span> </li> <li id="162">"Every person is born with a creative mind. Everyone has the ability" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kenner">Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2021-05-25)</span> </li> <li id="161">"...save us from succumbing to the tragic temptation of becoming cynical" –<a href="https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/when-peace-becomes-obnoxious">Martin Luther King Jr.</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2021-01-17)</span> </li> <li id="160">"I see little of more importance to the future of our country & our civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2021-01-12)</span> </li> <li id="159">"Gratitude is the art of seeing a gift in everything" –<a href="https://adafruit.com">Unknown</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2020-12-03)</span> </li> <li id="153">"We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.">Martin Luther King Jr.</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2020-06-08)</span> </li> <li id="154">"We are what we amplify" –<a href="https://www.adafruit.com/blacklivesmatter">Unknown</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2020-06-08)</span> </li> <li id="155">"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Chisholm">Shirley Chisholm</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2020-06-08)</span> </li> <li id="156">"Artists are here to disturb the peace" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin">James Baldwin</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2020-06-08)</span> </li> <li id="157">"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin">James Baldwin</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2020-06-08)</span> </li> <li id="158">"... when you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, say something, do something. Get in trouble, good trouble, necessary trouble" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_(civil_rights_leader)">John Lewis</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2020-06-08)</span> </li> <li id="152">"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2020-04-08)</span> </li> <li id="151">"Adversity is revealing of character" –<a href="https://www.adafruit.com/quotes">Unknown</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2020-03-26)</span> </li> <li id="150">"Think about the metric by which your life will be judged, and make a resolution to live every day so that in the end, your life will be judged a success" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_Christensen">Clayton M. Christensen</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2020-01-26)</span> </li> <li id="149">"Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon">John Lennon</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2019-10-21)</span> </li> <li id="148">"My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley">Aldous Huxley</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2019-09-20)</span> </li> <li id="147">"If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison">Toni Morrison</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2019-08-06)</span> </li> <li id="146">"Here, you learn what it is to be human. You are a creator of order, of beautiful shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(novel)">Dune</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2019-03-20)</span> </li> <li id="145">"I don’t care that they stole my idea — I care that they don’t have any of their own" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla">Nikola Tesla</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2018-01-07)</span> </li> <li id="144">"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise" –<a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Margaret_Atwood">Margaret Atwood</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2017-10-31)</span> </li> <li id="143">"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol">Andy Warhol</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2017-04-26)</span> </li> <li id="141">"Eternal vigilance is not only the price of liberty; eternal vigilance is the price of human decency" –<a href="http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2011/01/eternal-vigilance-is-price-of-liberty.html">Aldous Huxley</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2017-03-17)</span> </li> <li id="142">"Get as much education as you can. Nobody can take that away from you" –<a href="http://lifehacker.com/5978324/im-eben-upton-executive-director-of-the-raspberry-pi-foundation-and-this-is-how-i-work">Eben Upton</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2017-03-17)</span> </li> <li id="140">"To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful." –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_R._Murrow">Edward R. Murrow</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2017-03-12)</span> </li> <li id="139">"Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Halas">George Halas</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2016-06-22)</span> </li> <li id="137">"Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art." –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol"> Andy Warhol</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2016-06-08)</span> </li> <li id="135">"Every great dream begins with a dreamer" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman">Harriet Tubman</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2016-04-21)</span> </li> <li id="136">"A strong spirit transcends rules" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(musician)">Prince</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2016-04-21)</span> </li> <li id="134">"Achieving a goal provides immediate satisfaction; the process of achieving a goal is a lasting pleasure" –<a href="https://computerhistory.org/profile/evelyn-berezin/">Evelyn Berezin</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2016-04-13)</span> </li> <li id="133">"Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms" –<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/924243-two-aesthetics-exist-the-passive-aesthetic-of-mirrors-and-the">Jorge Luis Borges</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-12-16)</span> </li> <li id="132">"By always thinking unto them. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open little by little into the full light" –<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=agI9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA163&lpg=PA163&dq=isaac+newton+by+always+thinking+unto+them&source=bl&ots=0k_nBzZcqm&sig=3ARIEdz66ACinqE1KNi1Uh3sMMw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiIzfDIt8fJAhVF4CYKHadLCAsQ6AEINzAG#v=onepage&q=by%20always%20thin">Isaac Newton</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-12-06)</span> </li> <li id="131">"Striving for excellence motivates... striving for perfection is demoralizing" –<a href="https://www.harrietbraiker.com/">Harriet B. Braiker</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-11-22)</span> </li> <li id="130">"That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show" –<a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628860-300-ada-lovelace-my-brain-is-more-than-merely-mortal/">Ada Lovelace</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-11-07)</span> </li> <li id="129">"What I cannot create, I do not understand" –<a href="https://www.quora.com/What-did-Richard-Feynman-mean-when-he-said-What-I-cannot-create-I-do-not-understand">Richard Feynman</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-10-25)</span> </li> <li id="128">"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-10-12)</span> </li> <li id="127">"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr">Niels Bohr</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-09-11)</span> </li> <li id="126">"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley">Mary Shelley</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-08-27)</span> </li> <li id="125">"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than alone in the light" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller">Helen Keller</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-07-13)</span> </li> <li id="124">"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Ashe">Arthur Ashe</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-07-06)</span> </li> <li id="121">"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Herbert">Frank Herbert</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-07-04)</span> </li> <li id="122">"Prepare for what is difficult when it is easy" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laozi">Lao Tzu</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-07-04)</span> </li> <li id="123">"Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Carnegie">Dale Carnegie</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-07-04)</span> </li> <li id="120">"The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch">Plutarch</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-06-20)</span> </li> <li id="119">"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead">Alfred North Whitehead</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-06-11)</span> </li> <li id="118">"Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Halas">George Halas</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-06-10)</span> </li> <li id="117">"There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan">Marshall McLuhan</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-06-06)</span> </li> <li id="116">"The most dangerous phrase in the language is, We’ve always done it this way" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper">Grace Hopper</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-05-26)</span> </li> <li id="115">"The master in the art of living makes little distinction between... work and play" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._P._Jacks">L. P. Jacks</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-05-14)</span> </li> <li id="114">"the future is not what it used to be" –<a href="https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/12/06/future-not-used/#return-note-4966-8">Laura Riding and Robert Graves</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-05-12)</span> </li> <li id="113">"Meaning can easily be confused with structure. Structure is a good approximation, but not the same" –<a href="http://people.stern.nyu.edu/cperlich/">Claudia Perlich</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-05-01)</span> </li> <li id="112">"Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie">David Bowie</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-04-23)</span> </li> <li id="111">"There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola_J._May">Lola May</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-04-22)</span> </li> <li id="110">"I am one of the people who love the why of things" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_the_Great">Catherine the Great</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-04-20)</span> </li> <li id="109">"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie">Marie Curie</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-04-19)</span> </li> <li id="108">"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan">Carl Sagan</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-03-15)</span> </li> <li id="105">"Failing to prepare is preparing to fail " –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin">Benjamin Franklin</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-03-01)</span> </li> <li id="106">"Be quick, but don't hurry" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wooden">John Wooden</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-03-01)</span> </li> <li id="107">"Flexibility is the key to stability" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wooden">John Wooden</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-03-01)</span> </li> <li id="102">"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen" –<a href="http://library.und.edu/digital/john-f-kennedy-archive/delivered.php">John F. Kennedy</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-02-27)</span> </li> <li id="103">"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Berle">Milton Berle</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-02-27)</span> </li> <li id="104">"The miracle is this: The more we share, the more we have" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Nimoy">Leonard Nimoy</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-02-27)</span> </li> <li id="100">"You're never too old, and if you want to, as my mother said, you can do anything you want to, but you have to work at it" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Easley">Annie Easley</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-02-22)</span> </li> <li id="101">"Be so good they can't ignore you" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Martin">Steve Martin</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-02-22)</span> </li> <li id="99">"I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney">Walt Disney</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-02-21)</span> </li> <li id="98">"Sometimes magic is just spending more time on something than anyone would reasonably expect" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teller_%28magician%29">Teller</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-02-11)</span> </li> <li id="97">"This good fun, explore, explore, explore, that's what science is, exploration, finding out new things, so have a good time with it" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Townes">Charles Townes</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-01-30)</span> </li> <li id="96">"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others?" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.">Martin Luther King, Jr.</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2015-01-19)</span> </li> <li id="95">"We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_O'Shaughnessy">Arthur O'Shaughnessy</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2014-09-23)</span> </li> <li id="94">"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller">Helen Keller</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2014-09-16)</span> </li> <li id="93">"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank">Anne Frank</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2014-08-30)</span> </li> <li id="92">"You're only given one little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Williams">Robin Williams</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2014-08-12)</span> </li> <li id="91">"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato">Plato</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2014-07-22)</span> </li> <li id="90">"I don't think there's anything like saving someone's life to bring you satisfaction and happiness" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Kwolek">Stephanie Kwolek</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2014-06-20)</span> </li> <li id="89">"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Fuller">Margaret Fuller</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2014-06-18)</span> </li> <li id="81">"If you get, give. If you learn, teach" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Angelou">Maya Angelou</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2014-06-16)</span> </li> <li id="82">"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie">Marie Curie</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2014-06-16)</span> </li> <li id="83">"We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Mitchell">Maria Mitchell</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2014-06-16)</span> </li> <li id="84">"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie">Marie Curie</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2014-06-16)</span> </li> <li id="85">"In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable; and, secondly, by a sort of natural reaction, to undervalue the true state of the case, when we do discover that our notions have surpassed those that were really tenable" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace">Ada Lovelace</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2014-06-16)</span> </li> <li id="86">"The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace">Ada Lovelace</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2014-06-16)</span> </li> <li id="87">"There are a few people out there who really enjoy hacking things..." –<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/08/technology/08iht-ptbot09.html?_r=0">Helen Greiner</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2014-06-16)</span> </li> <li id="88">"...programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper">Grace Hopper</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2014-06-16)</span> </li> <li id="80">"Nothing will work unless you do" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Angelou">Maya Angelou</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2014-05-28)</span> </li> <li id="79">"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla">Nikola Tesla</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2014-04-08)</span> </li> <li id="78">"Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan">Carl Sagan</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2014-03-04)</span> </li> <li id="76">"There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov">Isaac Asimov</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2014-02-24)</span> </li> <li id="77">"Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth">Jules Verne</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2014-02-24)</span> </li> <li id="75">"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Beckett">Samuel Beckett</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2014-01-30)</span> </li> <li id="74">"The key to the future of the world is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Seeger">Pete Seeger</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2014-01-29)</span> </li> <li id="73">"A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things" –<a href="https://twitter.com/wef/statuses/294738623641812992">Tim Berners-Lee</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2013-01-26)</span> </li> <li id="72">"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_de_Saint-Exup%C3%A9ry">Antoine de Saint-Exupery</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2013-01-22)</span> </li> <li id="71">"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.">Martin Luther King, Jr.</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2013-01-20)</span> </li> <li id="70">"Don't fight forces, use them" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller">R. Buckminster Fuller</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2013-01-16)</span> </li> <li id="69">"Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_H._Land">Edwin Land</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2012-10-03)</span> </li> <li id="68">"There’s nothing like watching the sunrise to the beats of the Robot Heart" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Huang">Andrew "bunnie" Huang</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2012-09-09)</span> </li> <li id="67">"Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, existence is simply illusion" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Rogers">Fred Rogers</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2012-08-28)</span> </li> <li id="65">"Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a quality that decides between success and failure" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra">Edsger Dijkstra</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2012-08-23)</span> </li> <li id="66">"It is the fate of manufactured goods to slowly and gently depreciate as they get old... but it is the fate of operating systems to become free" –<a href="http://www.nealstephenson.com/">Neal Stephenson</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2012-08-23)</span> </li> <li id="64">"To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time" –<a href="http://thinkexist.com/quotation/to_achieve_great_things-two_things_are_needed-a/214657.html">Leonard Bernstein</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2012-07-04)</span> </li> <li id="63">"...the idea is to try to give all of the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another." –<a href="http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/cargocul.htm">Richard Feynman</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2012-06-18)</span> </li> <li id="62">"Any path that narrows future possibilities may become a lethal trap" –<a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune">The Spacing Guild Handbook</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2012-04-22)</span> </li> <li id="59">"I think there's something strangely musical about noise" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Reznor">Trent Reznor</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2012-04-01)</span> </li> <li id="60">"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes">Rene Descartes</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2012-04-01)</span> </li> <li id="61">"The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage">Charles Babbage</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2012-04-01)</span> </li> <li id="57">"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi">Rumi</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2012-03-05)</span> </li> <li id="58">"Collaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being without the participation of many" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_Shirky">Clay Shirky</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2012-03-05)</span> </li> <li id="56">"A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Miyamoto">Shigeru Miyamoto</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2012-03-02)</span> </li> <li id="55">"I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson">Neil deGrasse Tyson</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2012-03-01)</span> </li> <li id="53">"To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson">Thomas J. Watson</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2012-02-28)</span> </li> <li id="54">"Confusion and clutter are the failure of design, not the attributes of information" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Tufte">Edward Tufte</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2012-02-28)</span> </li> <li id="51">"A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller">R. Buckminster Fuller</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2012-02-27)</span> </li> <li id="49">"In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller">R. Buckminster Fuller</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2012-02-26)</span> </li> <li id="50">"You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes">René Descartes</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2012-02-26)</span> </li> <li id="47">"Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra">Edsger W. Dijkstra</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2012-02-24)</span> </li> <li id="48">"This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancelot_Hogben">Lancelot Hogben</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2012-02-24)</span> </li> <li id="46">"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells">H. G. Wells</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2012-02-23)</span> </li> <li id="43">"Art is I; science is we" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Bernard">Claude Bernard</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2012-02-20)</span> </li> <li id="44">"He who receives an idea from me receives it without lessening me, as he who lights his candle at mine receives light without darkening me" –<a href="http://dangerousprototypes.com/2012/02/20/presidents-in-favor-of-open-source/">Thomas Jefferson</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2012-02-20)</span> </li> <li id="45">"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Brand">Stewart Brand</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2012-02-20)</span> </li> <li id="42">"I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand" –<a href="http://www.mookychick.co.uk/feminism-politics/feminist-icons/ada-lovelace.php">Ada Lovelace</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2012-02-18)</span> </li> <li id="41">"People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware" –<a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alan_Kay">Alan Kay</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2012-02-14)</span> </li> <li id="40">"The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-ninety_rule">Tom Cargill</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2011-12-03)</span> </li> <li id="39">"Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later" –<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/opinion/mona-simpsons-eulogy-for-steve-jobs.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all">Unknown</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2011-10-31)</span> </li> <li id="38">"In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunryu_Suzuki">Shunryu Suzuki</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2011-10-28)</span> </li> <li id="37">"We understand human mental processes only slightly better than a fish understands swimming" –<a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_%28computer_scientist%29">John McCarthy</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2011-10-25)</span> </li> <li id="36">"Let us stand on each other’s shoulders, not each other’s toes" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_BASIC">Dennis Allison</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2011-08-28)</span> </li> <li id="35">"The best way to predict the future is to invent it" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay">Alan Kay</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2011-08-25)</span> </li> <li id="34">"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci">Leonardo da Vinci</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2011-08-07)</span> </li> <li id="33">"The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Bell">Gordon Bell</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2011-08-06)</span> </li> <li id="32">"A late game is only late until it ships. A bad game is bad until the end of time" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Miyamoto">Shigeru Miyamoto</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2011-08-05)</span> </li> <li id="31">"Perfect is the enemy of good" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good">Voltaire</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2011-07-29)</span> </li> <li id="30">"The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle" –<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc">Steve Jobs</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2011-07-17)</span> </li> <li id="29">"I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moog">Robert Moog </a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2011-07-04)</span> </li> <li id="28">"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov">Isaac Asimov</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2011-07-01)</span> </li> <li id="26">"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton">Isaac Newton</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2011-06-09)</span> </li> <li id="27">"When you make a thing, a thing that is new, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly. But those that make it after you, they don’t have to worry about making it. And they can make it pretty, and so everybody can like it when others make it after you" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso">Pablo Picasso</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2011-06-09)</span> </li> <li id="25">"It's only "work" if you'd rather be doing something else" –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Kamen">Dean Kamen</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2011-05-18)</span> </li> <li id="24">"If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein">Albert Einstein</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2011-05-13)</span> </li> <li id="23">"The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from; furthermore, if you do not like any of them, you can just wait for next year's model" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Tanenbaum">Andrew S. Tanenbaum</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2011-05-12)</span> </li> <li id="21">"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.">Martin Luther King, Jr.</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2011-05-05)</span> </li> <li id="22">"Do well by doing good" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin">Benjamin Franklin</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2011-05-05)</span> </li> <li id="20">"Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a quality that decides between success and failure" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra">Edsger W. Dijkstra</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2011-05-04)</span> </li> <li id="19">"The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_Jansen">Theo Jansen</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2011-04-25)</span> </li> <li id="17">"Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do… The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Really smart people with reasonable funding can do just about anything that doesn't violate too many of Newton's Laws!" –<a href="https://computerhistory.org/profile/alan-kay/">Alan Kay</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2011-04-24)</span> </li> <li id="18">"Hardware eventually fails. Software eventually works" –<a href="http://www.ibm.com/ibm/greateribm/connections/connections_article40.shtml">Michael Hartung</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2011-04-24)</span> </li> <li id="16">"Improvement makes straight roads: but the crooked roads without Improvement are roads of Genius" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake">William Blake</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2011-04-18)</span> </li> <li id="11">"Scientists investigate that which already is; engineers create that which has never been" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein">Albert Einstein</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2011-04-15)</span> </li> <li id="12">"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Dyson">Freeman Dyson</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2011-04-15)</span> </li> <li id="13">"What I cannot create, I do not understand" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman">Richard Feynman</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2011-04-15)</span> </li> <li id="14">"You can't see it if you don't look at it" –<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=3kY4-HYLqh0C&pg=PA60&lpg=PA60&dq=%22you+can%27t+see+it+if+you+don%27t+look+at+it%22+mckenna&source=bl&ots=oqJNEw26vj&sig=GuUscuvkmfuNbbiA-KaNAmORWmI&hl=en&ei=rKOoTbiQF4q4tweIpNTdBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ve">Dan McKenna</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2011-04-15)</span> </li> <li id="15">"Calculation and reasoning, like weaving and ploughing, are work, not for human souls, but for clever combinations of iron and wood" –<a href="http://books.google.com/books?oe=UTF-8&id=k7s0AAAAMAAJ&q=calculation#v=onepage&q=calculation&f=false">Mary Boole</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2011-04-15)</span> </li> <li id="4">"Premature optimization is the root of all evil" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth">Donald Knuth</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2011-04-14)</span> </li> <li id="10">"It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper">Grace Hopper</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2011-04-14)</span> </li> <li id="2">"We are what we celebrate" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Kamen">Dean Kamen</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2011-04-13)</span> </li> <li id="3">"I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success" –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla">Nikola Tesla</a> <span style="font-style: italic">(Added 2011-04-13)</span> </li> </ul> </div> <footer id="siteFooter"> <div class="footerContainer"> <nav aria-label="Need Help?"> <ul> <li> <a href="/contact_us">Contact Us</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://forums.adafruit.com/">Tech Support Forums</a> </li> <li> <a href="/faq">FAQs</a> </li> <li> <a href="/shipping">Shipping & Returns</a> </li> <li> <a href="/free">Freebies</a> </li> <li> <a href="/terms_of_service">Terms of Service</a> </li> <li> <a href="/privacy">Privacy & Legal</a> </li> <li> <a href="/accessibility">Website Accessibility</a> </li> </ul> </nav> <nav aria-label="Explore Adafruit"> <ul> <li> <a href="/about">About Us</a> </li> <li> <a href="/press">Press</a> </li> <li> <a href="/educators">Educators</a> </li> <li> <a href="/distributors">Distributors</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://jobs.adafruit.com">Jobs</a> </li> <li> <a href="/category/14">Gift Cards</a> </li> </ul> </nav> <div class="footer-quote"> <span class="quoteClass "> “ My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing” </span> <div class="quoteAttribution"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley">Aldous Huxley</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="footerContainer bottom"> <script> if (typeof remarketingParams !== 'undefined') { dataLayer.push({ 'event': 'remarketingReady', 'remarketingParams': remarketingParams }); 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