The best is the enemy of the good. -- Voltaire
If something isn’t working, you need to look back and figure out what got you excited in the first place. -- David Gorman (ImThere.com)
I think it is wise, and only honest, to warn you that my goal is immodest. It is not my purpose to "transfer knowledge" to you that, subsequently, you can forget again. My purpose is no less than to effectuate in each of you a noticeable, irreversable change. I want you to gain, for the rest of your lives, the insight that beautiful proofs are not "found" by trial anf error but are the result of a consciously applied design discipline. I want you to raise your quality standards. I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me. -- E. W. Dijkstra
A person won't retain proficiency at a task unless he or she has at one time learned to perform that task very rapidly. Learning research demonstrates that the skills of people who become accurate but not fast deteriorate much sooner than the skills of people who become both accurate and fast. -- Philip Greenspun
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
We tend to seek easy, single-factor explanations of success. For most important things, though, success actually requires avoiding many separate causes of failure. -- Jared Diamond
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice. ~Wayne Dyer
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. ~Bruce Lee