If something isn’t working, you need to look back and figure out what got you excited in the first place. -- David Gorman (ImThere.com)

Students should be evaluated on how well they can achieve the goals they strived to achieve within a realistic context. Students need to learn to do things, not know things. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

Abstraction is a form of data compression: absolutely necessary, because human short-term memory is so small, but the critically important aspect of abstraction is the algorithm that gets you from the name back to the "uncompressed" details. -- Bruce Wilder (blog post comment)

Sometimes a man with too broad a perspective reveals himself as having no real perspective at all. A man who tries too hard to see every side may be a man who is trying to avoid choosing any side. A man who tries too hard to seek a deeper truth may be trying to hide from the truth he already knows. That is not a sign of intellectual sophistication and "great thinking". It is a demonstration of moral degeneracy and cowardice. -- Steven Den Beste

Training research shows that if you get speed now you can get quality later. But if you don't get speed you will never get quality in the long run. -- Philip Greenspun

The wonderful and frustrating thing about understanding yourself is that nobody can do it for you. -- BetterExplained.com

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ~Pablo Picasso

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. –Steve Jobs

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~Eleanor Roosevelt