The president was visiting NASA headquarters and stopped to talk to a man who was holding a mop. “And what do you do?” he asked. The man, a janitor, replied, “I’m helping to put a man on the moon, sir.” -- The little book of leadership

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. -- Aristotle.

We remember what we learn when we care about performing better and when we believe that what we have been asked to do is representative of reality. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

Why teach drawing to accountants? Because drawing class doesn't just teach people to draw. It teaches them to be more observant. There's no company on earth that wouldn't benefit from having people become more observant. -- Randy S. Nelson (dean of Pixar University)

Philosophy: the finding of bad reasons for what one believes by instinct. -- Brave New World (paraphrased)

You think you know when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

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

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. –Anne Frank

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. –Unknown