- If you give him a penny for his thoughts, you'd get change. - Not the sharpest knife in the drawer. - A prime candidate for natural deselection. -- [Ideas for flamewars]

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. -- Thomas Jefferson

We remember what we learn when we care about performing better and when we believe that what we have been asked to do is representative of reality. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. -- Ferris Bueller

The proof is by reductio ad absurdum, and reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician’s finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess gambit: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game. -- G. H. Hardy

That is the inevitable human response. We’re reluctant to believe that great discoveries are in the air. We want to believe that great discoveries are in our heads—and to each party in the multiple the presence of the other party is invariably cause for suspicion. -- Malcolm Gladwell, Who says big ideas are rare?

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it. ~Henry Ford

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. –Joshua J. Marine

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses