The reason to do animation is caricature. Good caricature picks out the essense of the statement and removes everything else. It's not simply about reproducing reality; It's about bumping it up. -- Brad Bird, writer and director, The Incredibles

No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side. If you keep waiting, it will comme up. -- Randy Pausch

A society that puts equality -- in the sense of equality of outcome -- ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests. -- Milton Friedman (Thomas Sowell: A Conflict of Visions, p130)

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be regarded as a criminal offense. -- E.W. Dijkstra

In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume that it is true and try to find out what it could be true of. -- George Miller

A CS professor once explained recursion as follows: A child couldn't sleep, so her mother told her a story about a little frog, who couldn't sleep, so the frog's mother told her a story about a little bear, who couldn't sleep, so the bear's mother told her a story about a little weasel... who fell asleep. ...and the little bear fell asleep; ...and the little frog fell asleep; ...and the child fell asleep. -- everything2.com

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. ~Steve Jobs

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb

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

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill