Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

Philosophy: the finding of bad reasons for what one believes by instinct. -- Brave New World (paraphrased)

We now come to the decisive step of mathematical abstraction: we forget about what the symbols stand for. ...[The mathematician] need not be idle; there are many operations which he may carry out with these symbols, without ever having to look at the things they stand for. -- Hermann Weyl, The Mathematical Way of Thinking

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them. -- Alan Perlis

All great things require great dedication. -- Chuck Norris(?)

The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made. -- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” –Audrey Hepburn

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work. ~Thomas J. Watson

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. ~George Lorimer