There was also an undercurrent of desperation about the town's sagging image. They put up booster signs with slogans like "It's Swell in Hornell." As teenagers we mocked it. Yet it made me sensitive to the town's identity crisis: How does an underdog pull itself up?


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When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
BILL WATTERSON
Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.
BILL WATTERSON
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that...
BILL WATTERSON
There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
BILL WATTERSON
We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
BILL WATTERSON
We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves an...
BILL WATTERSON
From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.
BILL WATTERSON
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's differ...
BILL WATTERSON
The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't wa...
BILL WATTERSON
The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
BILL WATTERSON
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a...
BILL WATTERSON
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
BILL WATTERSON
Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
BILL WATTERSON
If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.
BILL WATTERSON
It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
BILL WATTERSON
Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
BILL WATTERSON
Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.
BILL COPELAND
Keep your word. Honor commitments, and they will double back to honor you.
BILL RANCIC
Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But i...
BILL GATES
The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft in...
BILL GATES
According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first w...
BILL GATES
My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a ...
BILL GATES
Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated ...
BILL GATES
The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.
BILL GATES
The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.
BILL GATES
People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision...
BILL GATES
In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actua...
BILL GATES
My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.
BILL GATES
In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.
BILL GATES
I think there will be PCs at every price point.
BILL GATES
I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.
BILL GATES
The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natu...
BILL GATES
The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.
BILL GATES
Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. ...
BILL GATES
At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I&...
BILL GATES
I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a littl...
BILL GATES
Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on...
BILL GATES
I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so t...
BILL GATES
To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes so...
BILL GATES
Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
BILL GATES
People everywhere love Windows.
BILL GATES
I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.
BILL GATES
The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
BILL GATES
If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago...
BILL GATES
Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.
BILL GATES
Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
BILL GATES
I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
BILL GATES
China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.
BILL GATES
The best teacher is very interactive.
BILL GATES
Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.
BILL GATES
The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
BILL GATES
Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it k...
BILL GATES
I'm a geek.
BILL GATES