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

Workers of the world, the chains that bind you are not held in place by a ruling class, a "superior" race, by society, the state, or a leader. They are held in place by none other than yourself. Those who seek to exploit are not themselves free, for they place no value in freedom. Who is it that really employs you and commands you to pick up your daily load? And who is it that you allow to pass judgment on the adequacy of your toil? Who have you empowered to dangle the carrot before you and threaten with disapproval? Who, when you wake each morning, sends you off to what you call your work? Is there an "I want to" behind all your "I have to," or have you been so long forgotten to yourself that "I want" exists only as an idea in your head? If you have disconnected from your soul's desire and are drowning in an ocean of "have to," then rise up and overthrow your master. Begin the journey toward emancipation. Work only in such a way that you are truly self-employed. -- Tim Gallwey, The inner game of work

Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free. -- Linus Torvalds

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -- Alan Kay

It’s hard to grasp abstractions if you don’t understand what they’re abstracting away from. -- Nathan Weizenbaum

Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case. -- Francis Glassborow

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them. ~Vaibhav Shah