Omit needless words. -- William Strunk, Jr. (The Elements of Style)

I was talking recently to a friend who teaches at MIT. His field is hot now and every year he is inundated by applications from would-be graduate students. "A lot of them seem smart," he said. "What I can't tell is whether they have any kind of taste." -- Paul Graham

You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery and you create a feeling of strength in reserve. -- Pablo Picasso

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -- Benjamin Franklin

All creativity is an extended form of a joke. -- Alan Kay

If something isn’t working, you need to look back and figure out what got you excited in the first place. -- David Gorman (ImThere.com)

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. –Bob Dylan

The starting point of all achievement is desire. ~Napolean Hill

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ~Swami Vivekananda

You can do anything, but not everything. ~Anonymous