Students should be evaluated on how well they can achieve the goals they strived to achieve within a realistic context. Students need to learn to do things, not know things. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

I guess, when you're drunk, every woman looks beautiful and every language looks (like) a Lisp :) -- Lament, #[email protected]

Actually, the essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes. -- George Leonard, Mastery.

No matter how much you plan you’re likely to get half wrong anyway. So don’t do the ‘paralysis through analysis’ thing. That only slows progress and saps morale. -- 37 Signal, Getting real

Rules of Optimization: Rule 1: Don’t do it. Rule 2 (for experts only): Don’t do it yet. -- M.A. Jackson

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

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

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out. ~Robert Collier

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. ~George Lorimer

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey