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

Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. -- Alan J. Perlis

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

The job of a leader today is not to create followers. It’s to create more leaders. -- Ralph Nader

Photography is painting with light. -- Eric Hamilton

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

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. –Booker T. Washington

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong