Its a shame that the students of our generation grew up with windows and mice because that tainted our mindset not to think in terms of powerful tools. Some of us are just so tainted that we will never recover. -- Jeffrey Mark Siskind in comp.lang.lisp

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832)

Why teach drawing to accountants? Because drawing class doesn't just teach people to draw. It teaches them to be more observant. There's no company on earth that wouldn't benefit from having people become more observant. -- Randy S. Nelson (dean of Pixar University)

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. -- Dr. Seuss

Hire people smarter than you. Work with people smarter than you. Listen to them. Let them lead you. Take the blame for all failures, give away the credit for all successes. -- How to fail: 25 secrets learned through failure

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -- Benjamin Franklin

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. ~David Brinkley

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. ~Dale Carnegie

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. –John Lennon