1 - Creativity and innovation always build on the past. 2 - The past always tries to control the creativity that builds on it. 3 - Free societies enable the future by limiting the past. 4 - Ours is less and less a free society. -- Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture.

Are you willing to wear your white belt? -- George Leonard, Mastery.

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. -- Earl of Chesterfield

The best way to learn to live with our limitations is to know them. --E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. -- Mark Twain

Opportunities that present themselves to you are the consequence -- at least partially -- of being in the right place at the right time. They tend to present themselves when you're not expecting it -- and often when you are engaged in other activities that would seem to preclude you from pursuing them. And they come and go quickly -- if you don't jump all over an opportunity, someone else generally will and it will vanish. -- Marc Andreessen (http://blog.pmarca.com/)

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses

Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy. ~Anonymous

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice. ~Wayne Dyer