Bob Lewis Professions : Poet Born : March 4, 1947 Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by Bob Lewis Contentment is wanting what you have. Ambition is wanting what another has. Progress comes from wanting what nobody has. Bob Lewis progress contentment ambition The technology life cycle has three stages: Hype, disillusionment, and application. Bob Lewis hype technology three Pessimists, we're told, look at a glass containing 50% air and 50% water and see it as half empty. Optimists, in contrast, see it as half full. Engineers, of course, understand the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. Bob Lewis glasses air water To win the Kentucky Derby is the goal of every trainer, every hot-walker, every backside person. They may be just rubbing on a horse, or hot-walking a horse, but they wonder if they could win the Kentucky Derby. Bob Lewis kentucky horse winning Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies. Bob Lewis covering excuse arrogance Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors