Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. -- George Burns

While I’ve always appreciated beautiful code, I share Jonathan’s concern about studying it too much. I think studying beauty in music and painting has led us to modern classical music and painting that the majority of us just don’t get. Beauty can be seen when it emerges, but isn’t something to strive for in isolation of a larger context. In the software world, the larger context would be the utility of the software to the end user. -- [A comment on a blog]

1 - Creativity and innovation always build on the past. 2 - The past always tries to control the creativity that builds on it. 3 - Free societies enable the future by limiting the past. 4 - Ours is less and less a free society. -- Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (attributed)

The Work Begins Anew, The Hope Rises Again, And The Dream Lives On. -- Ted Kennedy

In theory, there’s no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is. -- Albert Einstein

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. –Leonardo da Vinci

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

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins