The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. -- Elie Wiesel

Mastering isn’t a survival instinct; it’s an urge to excel. Mastering is one of the experiences that delineates us from animals. It is striving to be more tomorrow than we are today; to perfectly pitch the ball over home plate; to craft the perfect sentence in an article; to open the oven and feel the warm, richly-scented cloud telling you dinner is going to be absolutely extraordinary. We humans crave perfection, to be masters of our domain, to distinguish ourselves by sheer skill and prowess. -- Joesgoals.com

Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte. (I have made this letter so long only because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.) -- Blaise Pascal (Lettres Provinciales)

In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume that it is true and try to find out what it could be true of. -- George Miller

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. -- Hugh Kingsmill

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

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark Twain

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. –Sheryl Sandberg

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray

We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale