Workers of the world, the chains that bind you are not held in place by a ruling class, a "superior" race, by society, the state, or a leader. They are held in place by none other than yourself. Those who seek to exploit are not themselves free, for they place no value in freedom. Who is it that really employs you and commands you to pick up your daily load? And who is it that you allow to pass judgment on the adequacy of your toil? Who have you empowered to dangle the carrot before you and threaten with disapproval? Who, when you wake each morning, sends you off to what you call your work? Is there an "I want to" behind all your "I have to," or have you been so long forgotten to yourself that "I want" exists only as an idea in your head? If you have disconnected from your soul's desire and are drowning in an ocean of "have to," then rise up and overthrow your master. Begin the journey toward emancipation. Work only in such a way that you are truly self-employed. -- Tim Gallwey, The inner game of work

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. -- Hans Hofmann

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. -- Arthur C. Clarke

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. -- Alfred North Whitehead (Introduction to Mathematics)

Premature abstraction is an equally grevious sin as premature optimization. -- Keith Devens

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

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ~Jim Ryun

Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them. ~Anonymous

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. ~Anonymous