The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference. -- Elie Wiesel

No matter how much you plan you’re likely to get half wrong anyway. So don’t do the ‘paralysis through analysis’ thing. That only slows progress and saps morale. -- 37 Signal, Getting real

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines produced but as lines spent. -- Edsger Dijkstra

An interpreter raises the machine to the level of the user program; a compiler lowers the user program to the level of the machine language. -- SICP

Why teach drawing to accountants? Because drawing class doesn't just teach people to draw. It teaches them to be more observant. There's no company on earth that wouldn't benefit from having people become more observant. -- Randy S. Nelson (dean of Pixar University)

The lesson of the story might appear to be that self-interested and ambitious people in power are often the cause of wastefulness in developing countries. But self-interested and ambitious people are in positions of power, great and small, all over the world. In many places, they are restrained by the law, the press, and democratic opposition. Cameroon's tragedy is that there is nothing to hold self-interest in check. -- Tim Harford

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value. ~Albert Einstein

Life isn't about getting and having, it's about giving and being. –Kevin Kruse

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill