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

In theory, there’s no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is. -- Albert Einstein

And if you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all. -- Joel Spolsky

Give up control. You never really had it anyway. -- How to fail: 25 secrets learned through failure

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. -- Mark Twain

An expert is, according to my working definition "someone who doesn't need to look up answers to easy questions". -- Eric Lippert.

What’s the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable. ~Anonymous

You become what you believe. –Oprah Winfrey

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough. –Oprah Winfrey

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus