It's no trick for talented people to be interesting, but it's a gift to be interested. We want an organization filled with interested people. -- Randy S. Nelson (dean of Pixar University)

Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts. -- Edsger Dijkstra, CACM, 15:10

Are you willing to wear your white belt? -- George Leonard, Mastery.

The direct pursuit of happiness is a recipe for an unhappy life. -- Donald Campbell

The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it [Leadership]. -- Dwight D. Enseinhover.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly. ~Proverb

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown