Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. -- Colin Powell

It’s hard to grasp abstractions if you don’t understand what they’re abstracting away from. -- Nathan Weizenbaum

In theory, there’s no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is. -- Albert Einstein

Good ideas are out there for anyone with the wit and the will to find them. -- Malcolm Gladwell, Who says big ideas are rare?

Il y a très loin de la velléité à la volnt, de la volonté à la résolution, de la résolution au choix des moyens, du choix ds moyens à lapplication. -- Jean-François Paul de Gondi de Retz

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

It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot

Life isn't about getting and having, it's about giving and being. –Kevin Kruse

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ~Herman Melville

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