The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. -- Bertrand Russell

That is the inevitable human response. We’re reluctant to believe that great discoveries are in the air. We want to believe that great discoveries are in our heads—and to each party in the multiple the presence of the other party is invariably cause for suspicion. -- Malcolm Gladwell, Who says big ideas are rare?

Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder. -- Erik Naggum

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. -- Arthur C. Clarke

1 - Creativity and innovation always build on the past. 2 - The past always tries to control the creativity that builds on it. 3 - Free societies enable the future by limiting the past. 4 - Ours is less and less a free society. -- Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture.

We remember what we learn when we care about performing better and when we believe that what we have been asked to do is representative of reality. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark Twain

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. ~Dale Carnegie

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. ~Truman Capote

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. ~Albert Einstein