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

Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts. -- Edsger Dijkstra, CACM, 15:10

Two people should stay together if together they are better people than they would be individually. -- ?

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

C++ is like teenage sex: Everybody is talking about it all the time, only few are really doing it. -- unknown

The Work Begins Anew, The Hope Rises Again, And The Dream Lives On. -- Ted Kennedy

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. ~Anonymous

If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission. ~Anonymous

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. –John Lennon

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. ~John D. Rockefeller