Training research shows that if you get speed now you can get quality later. But if you don't get speed you will never get quality in the long run. -- Philip Greenspun

La haine est une liqueur précieuse, un poison plus cher que celui des Borgia, - car il est fait avec notre sang, notre santé, notre sommeil, et les deux tiers de notre amour! Il faut en être avare! -- Charles Baudelaire, Conseils aux jeunes littérateurs.

A person won't retain proficiency at a task unless he or she has at one time learned to perform that task very rapidly. Learning research demonstrates that the skills of people who become accurate but not fast deteriorate much sooner than the skills of people who become both accurate and fast. -- Philip Greenspun

There are many ways to avoid success in life, but the most sure-fire just might be procrastination. -- Hara Estroff Marano.

It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. -- Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. -- C.S. Lewis

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. ~Margaret Thatcher

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

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. ~Maya Angelou

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato