Do you want to sell sugared water all your life or do you want to change the world? -- Steve Jobs, to John Sculley (former Pepsi executive)
We control complexity by building abstractions that hide details when appropriate. We control complexity by establishing conventional interfaces that enable us to construct systems by combining standard, well-understood pieces in a ``mix and match'' way. We control complexity by establishing new languages for describing a design, each of which emphasizes particular aspects of the design and deemphasizes others. -- Alan J. Perlis
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Cited by Randy Pausch
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
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. -- Elie Wiesel
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -- Mark Twain
Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. –Jesus
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ~Pablo Picasso
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing - that’s why we recommend it daily. ~Zig Ziglar
If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got. ~Anonymous