The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. -- Bertrand Russell

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. -- Bill Gates

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

Humans differ from animals to the degree that they are not merely an end result of their conditioning, but are able to reflect on their experiences and strategies, and apply insight to make changes in the way they live to modify the outcome. -- SlideTrombone (comment on "Programming can ruin your life")

No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side. If you keep waiting, it will comme up. -- Randy Pausch

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. ~Francis Chan

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

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. –Beverly Sills

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absense of fear. ~Mark Twain