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

Premature abstraction is an equally grevious sin as premature optimization. -- Keith Devens

We really have to get over the idea that some stuff is just worth knowing even if you never do anything with it. Human memories happily erase stuff that has no purpose, so why try to fill up children's heads with such stuff? -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

Sometimes a man with too broad a perspective reveals himself as having no real perspective at all. A man who tries too hard to see every side may be a man who is trying to avoid choosing any side. A man who tries too hard to seek a deeper truth may be trying to hide from the truth he already knows. That is not a sign of intellectual sophistication and "great thinking". It is a demonstration of moral degeneracy and cowardice. -- Steven Den Beste

There are many ways to avoid success in life, but the most sure-fire just might be procrastination. -- Hara Estroff Marano.

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

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. –Leonardo da Vinci

An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates

You can do anything, but not everything. ~Anonymous

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill