I like to avoid thinking by quoting others, so here are some thoughts I haven't had:

At idfive we deal quite a bit with financial types, and we always try to engange them with talks about money, asking what they think and why and how and so forth. But they always seem reluctant, and come back at us with questions about what we do, which we dismiss as mere politeness. Oscar Wilde has a different take on it:

"When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss money." - Oscar Wilde

And here are some thoughts I ahvne't had from Seymore Cray, grandfather of supercomputing:

"If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?" - Seymour Cray (1925-1996)

"#3 pencils and quadrille pads." - Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when asked what CAD tools he
used to design the Cray I supercomputer; he also recommended using the back side of the pages so that the lines were not so dominant.

"I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray." - Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when he was informed that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them
design the next Mac.