Rules of Optimization: Rule 1: Don’t do it. Rule 2 (for experts only): Don’t do it yet. -- M.A. Jackson

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

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. -- Mario Andretti

The minute you put the blame on someone else you’ve switch things from being a problem you can control to a problem outside of your control. -- engtech (internetducttape.com)

Photography is painting with light. -- Eric Hamilton

We now come to the decisive step of mathematical abstraction: we forget about what the symbols stand for. ...[The mathematician] need not be idle; there are many operations which he may carry out with these symbols, without ever having to look at the things they stand for. -- Hermann Weyl, The Mathematical Way of Thinking

When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you. ~Lolly Daskal

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –Marie Curie

To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like. ~Mike Gafka

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. ~Mark Caine