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

Normality is the route to nowhere. -- Ridderstrale & Nordstorm, Funky Business

When you’ve got the code all ripped apart, it’s like a car that’s all disassembled. You’ve got all the parts tying all over your garage and you have to replace the broken part or the car will never run. It’s not fun until the code gets back to the baseline again. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

Any sufficiently advanced technology is undistinguishable from magic. -- Arthur C. Clarke

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not so sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein

Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS. -- Alan Kay

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. ~Anonymous

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

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. ~Mark Twain

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford