The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it [Leadership]. -- Dwight D. Enseinhover.

What I didn't understand was that the value of some new acquisition wasn't the difference between its retail price and what I paid for it. It was the value I derived from it. Stuff is an extremely illiquid asset. Unless you have some plan for selling that valuable thing you got so cheaply, what difference does it make what it's "worth?" The only way you're ever going to extract any value from it is to use it. And if you don't have any immediate use for it, you probably never will. -- Paul Graham

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein

My dream is that people adopt it on its own merits. We're not trying to bend Ruby on Rails to fit the enterprise, we're encouraging enterprises to bend to Ruby on Rails. Come if you like it, stay away if you don't. We're not going head over heels to accommodate the enterprise or to lure them away from Java. That's how you end up with Java, if you start bending to special interest groups. -- David Heinemeier Hansson (Ruby On Rails' creator)

Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. -- Philip Greenspun (Greenspun's Tenth Rule)

Photography is painting with light. -- Eric Hamilton

Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb

An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates

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

When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you. ~Lolly Daskal