What Paul does, and does very well, is to take ideas and concepts that are beautiful in the abstract, and brings them down to a real world level. That's a rare talent to find in writing these days. -- Jeff "hemos" Bates, Director, OSDN; Co-evolver, Slashdot

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.

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

It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. -- E. W. Dijkstra

I would rather be an optimist and be wrong than a pessimist who proves to be right. The former sometimes wins, but never the latter. -- "Hoots"

I had to learn how to teach less, so that more could be learned. -- Tim Gallwey, The inner game of work

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker

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

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses