Talkers are no good doers. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. -- Alfred North Whitehead (Introduction to Mathematics)

Good ideas are out there for anyone with the wit and the will to find them. -- Malcolm Gladwell, Who says big ideas are rare?

I think it is wise, and only honest, to warn you that my goal is immodest. It is not my purpose to "transfer knowledge" to you that, subsequently, you can forget again. My purpose is no less than to effectuate in each of you a noticeable, irreversable change. I want you to gain, for the rest of your lives, the insight that beautiful proofs are not "found" by trial anf error but are the result of a consciously applied design discipline. I want you to raise your quality standards. I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me. -- E. W. Dijkstra

Simple things should be simple. Complex things should be possible. -- Alan Kay

What’s the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable. ~Anonymous

Do one thing every day that scares you. ~Anonymous

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand

If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient. ~Gurbaksh Chahal