I’d rather write programs to write programs than write programs. -- Richard Sites

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

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. -- Rush (Freewill)

So the mere constraint of staying in regular contact with us will push you to make things happen, because otherwise you'll be embarrassed to tell us that you haven't done anything new since the last time we talked. -- Paul Graham (a talk at Y Combinator, for startup creators).

Do not accept anything because it comes from the mouth of a respected person. -- Buddha

Simplicity takes effort-- genius, even. -- Paul Graham

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. –Bob Dylan

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

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ~Jim Ryun

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato