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

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. -- Mario Andretti

The best people and organizations have the attitude of wisdom: The courage to act on what they know right now and the humility to change course when they find better evidence. The quest for management magic and breakthrough ideas is overrated; being a master of the obvious is underrated. Jim Maloney is right: Work is an overrated activity -- Bob Sutton

Functional programming is to algorithms as the ubiquitous little black dress is to women's fashion. -- Mark Tarver (of "The bipolar Lisp programmer" fame)

Be the change you want to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex, intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple, stupid behavior. -- Dee Hock, Birth of the Chaordic Age

It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absense of fear. ~Mark Twain

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals. ~Booker T. Washington

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone