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
I think it is wise, and only honest, to warn you that my goal is immodest. It is not my purpose to "transfer knowledge" to you that, subsequently, you can forget again. My purpose is no less than to effectuate in each of you a noticeable, irreversable change. I want you to gain, for the rest of your lives, the insight that beautiful proofs are not "found" by trial anf error but are the result of a consciously applied design discipline. I want you to raise your quality standards. I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me. -- E. W. Dijkstra
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. -- Ferris Bueller
Work as intensely as you play and play as intensely as you work. -- Eric S. Raymond, How To Be A Hacker
The greatest of all weaknesses is the fear of appearing weak. -- J. B. Bossuet, Politics from Holy Writ, 1709
I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin
We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret. ~Earl Nightingale
You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan
Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value. ~Albert Einstein