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?

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

Students should be evaluated on how well they can achieve the goals they strived to achieve within a realistic context. Students need to learn to do things, not know things. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

Any fool can make the simple complex, only a smart person can make the complex simple. -- unknown

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (attributed)

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. -- Frank Lloyd Wright

Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out. ~John Wooden

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. ~Francis Chan

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I would rather die of passion than of boredom. –Vincent van Gogh