"Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.
Edwin Land's comment after a 1977 Polaroid shareholder's meeting as quoted in Danny Miller "The Icarus Paradox: How Exceptional Companies Bring About Their Own Downfall; New Lessons in the Dynamics of Corporate Success, Decline, and Renewal"(p. 126), 1990.