The best people and organizations have the attitude of wisdom: The courage to act on what they know right now and the humility to change course when they find better evidence. The quest for management magic and breakthrough ideas is overrated; being a master of the obvious is underrated. Jim Maloney is right: Work is an overrated activity -- Bob Sutton

Mistakes were made. -- Ronald Reagan

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -- Thomas Edison

Functional programming is like describing your problem to a mathematician. Imperative programming is like giving instructions to an idiot. -- arcus, #scheme on Freenode

I had to learn how to teach less, so that more could be learned. -- Tim Gallwey, The inner game of work

It's like a condom; I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it. -- some chick in Alien vs. Predator, when asked why she always carries a gun

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing - that’s why we recommend it daily. ~Zig Ziglar

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong