Functional programming is to algorithms as the ubiquitous little black dress is to women's fashion. -- Mark Tarver (of "The bipolar Lisp programmer" fame)

It's no trick for talented people to be interesting, but it's a gift to be interested. We want an organization filled with interested people. -- Randy S. Nelson (dean of Pixar University)

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. -- Benjamin Franklin

The lesson of the story might appear to be that self-interested and ambitious people in power are often the cause of wastefulness in developing countries. But self-interested and ambitious people are in positions of power, great and small, all over the world. In many places, they are restrained by the law, the press, and democratic opposition. Cameroon's tragedy is that there is nothing to hold self-interest in check. -- Tim Harford

The job of a leader today is not to create followers. It’s to create more leaders. -- Ralph Nader

J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence. -- Anatole France

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value. ~Albert Einstein

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value. ~Albert Einstein

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. ~George Lorimer

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe