A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer. -- Bill Gates

As builders and creators finding the perfect solution should not be our main goal. We should find the perfect problem. -- Isaac (blog comment)

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. -- Alfred North Whitehead (Introduction to Mathematics)

Workers of the world, the chains that bind you are not held in place by a ruling class, a "superior" race, by society, the state, or a leader. They are held in place by none other than yourself. Those who seek to exploit are not themselves free, for they place no value in freedom. Who is it that really employs you and commands you to pick up your daily load? And who is it that you allow to pass judgment on the adequacy of your toil? Who have you empowered to dangle the carrot before you and threaten with disapproval? Who, when you wake each morning, sends you off to what you call your work? Is there an "I want to" behind all your "I have to," or have you been so long forgotten to yourself that "I want" exists only as an idea in your head? If you have disconnected from your soul's desire and are drowning in an ocean of "have to," then rise up and overthrow your master. Begin the journey toward emancipation. Work only in such a way that you are truly self-employed. -- Tim Gallwey, The inner game of work

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -- Sherlock Holmes

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. -- Earl of Chesterfield

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. –Sir Claus Moser

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.~ Anatole France

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~Eleanor Roosevelt