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

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.

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

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

Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. -- Alan J. Perlis

The lesson of the story might appear to be that self-interested and ambitious people in power are often the cause of wastefulness in developing countries. But self-interested and ambitious people are in positions of power, great and small, all over the world. In many places, they are restrained by the law, the press, and democratic opposition. Cameroon's tragedy is that there is nothing to hold self-interest in check. -- Tim Harford

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. ~Theodore N. Vail

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

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors. ~Napoleon Hill

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. ~Margaret Thatcher