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

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. -- Bertrand Russell

I would rather be an optimist and be wrong than a pessimist who proves to be right. The former sometimes wins, but never the latter. -- "Hoots"

That is one of the most distinctive differences between school and the real world: there is no reward for putting in a good effort. In fact, the whole concept of a "good effort" is a fake idea adults invented to encourage kids. It is not found in nature. -- Paul Graham

The best way to learn to live with our limitations is to know them. --E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer

Lisp is a programmable programming language. -- John Foderaro

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all. ~Dale Carnegie

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. ~Bill Gates

The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place. ~Guy Kawasaki

Teach thy tongue to say, I do not know, and thous shalt progress. –Maimonides