However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. -- Winston Churchill

[How friendly will this machine be?] Well, I don’t think it’s a matter of friendliness, because ultimately if the program is going to accomplish anything of value, it will probably be relatively complex. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

When your enemy is making a very serious mistake, don't be impolite and disturb him. -- Napoleon Bonaparte (allegedly)

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 reason to do animation is caricature. Good caricature picks out the essense of the statement and removes everything else. It's not simply about reproducing reality; It's about bumping it up. -- Brad Bird, writer and director, The Incredibles

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

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” –Audrey Hepburn

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. ~Anonymous

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