Sound methodology can empower and liberate the creative mind; it cannot inflame or inspire the drudge. -- Frederick P. Brooks, No Sliver Bullet.

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

Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. -- Thomas Edison

The minute you put the blame on someone else you’ve switch things from being a problem you can control to a problem outside of your control. -- engtech (internetducttape.com)

The reason to do animation is caricature. Good caricature picks out the essense of the statement and removes everything else. It's not simply about reproducing reality; It's about bumping it up. -- Brad Bird, writer and director, The Incredibles

We tend to seek easy, single-factor explanations of success. For most important things, though, success actually requires avoiding many separate causes of failure. -- Jared Diamond

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. ~Dale Carnegie

People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy. ~Tony Robbins

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. ~Thomas Jefferson