It was Edison who said ‘1% inspiration, 99% perspiration’. That may have been true a hundred years ago. These days it's ‘0.01% inspiration, 99.99% perspiration’, and the inspiration is the easy part. -- Linux Torvalds

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it. -- Alberti

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. -- Colin Powell

Philosophy: the finding of bad reasons for what one believes by instinct. -- Brave New World (paraphrased)

A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longuer anything to add, but when there is no longuer anything to take away. -- Antoine de St Exupery.

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. -- Bertrand Russell

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle

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