Any fool can make the simple complex, only a smart person can make the complex simple. -- unknown

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

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

Never do the impossible. People will expect you to do it forever after. -- pigsandfishes.com

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise. -- Edsger Dijkstra

Remember, always be yourself ... unless you suck! -- Joss Whedon

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ~Swami Vivekananda

If you can dream it, you can achieve it. –Zig Ziglar

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses

The best revenge is massive success. –Frank Sinatra