Talkers are no good doers. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

Its a shame that the students of our generation grew up with windows and mice because that tainted our mindset not to think in terms of powerful tools. Some of us are just so tainted that we will never recover. -- Jeffrey Mark Siskind in comp.lang.lisp

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. -- C.S. Lewis

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. -- Bertrand Russell

Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. -- Ancient Eastern adage

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

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. –Sir Claus Moser

Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. –Jesus

We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale

We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret. ~Earl Nightingale