All creativity is an extended form of a joke. -- Alan Kay

Talkers are no good doers. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. -- Official definition of "duck typing"

Simple things should be simple. Complex things should be possible. -- Alan Kay

If there is a will, there is a way. -- unknown

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

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value. ~Albert Einstein

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ~Pablo Picasso

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing. ~Martha Stewart

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. –Vincent Van Gogh