There are many ways to avoid success in life, but the most sure-fire just might be procrastination. -- Hara Estroff Marano.

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. -- Earl of Chesterfield

Hence my urgent advice to all of you to reject the morals of the bestseller society and to find, to start with, your reward in your own fun. This is quite feasible, for the challenge of simplification is so fascinating that, if we do our job properly, we shall have the greatest fun in the world. -- E. W. Dijkstra, On the nature of computing science.

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)

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Goethe

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for. -- Greek philosopher Epicurus

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. –Abigail Van Buren

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ~Ralph Nader

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. ~Diane Ackerman