Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act — if you can’t control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word. -- Nassim Taleb

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: "I did not have time." -- WestHost weekly newsletter 14 Feb 2003

Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. -- Ancient Eastern adage

The proof is by reductio ad absurdum, and reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician’s finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess gambit: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game. -- G. H. Hardy

The problem is that small examples fail to convince, and large examples are too big to follow. -- Steve Yegge.

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

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. ~Mark Caine

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

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

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe