Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration. -- Stan Kelly-Bootle

Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts. -- Edsger Dijkstra, CACM, 15:10

The best people and organizations have the attitude of wisdom: The courage to act on what they know right now and the humility to change course when they find better evidence. The quest for management magic and breakthrough ideas is overrated; being a master of the obvious is underrated. Jim Maloney is right: Work is an overrated activity -- Bob Sutton

It's no trick for talented people to be interesting, but it's a gift to be interested. We want an organization filled with interested people. -- Randy S. Nelson (dean of Pixar University)

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

If something isn’t working, you need to look back and figure out what got you excited in the first place. -- David Gorman (ImThere.com)

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese Proverb

We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret. ~Earl Nightingale

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria Steinem

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. ~Theodore N. Vail