We really have to get over the idea that some stuff is just worth knowing even if you never do anything with it. Human memories happily erase stuff that has no purpose, so why try to fill up children's heads with such stuff? -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection. -- Butler Lampson

You can have premature generalization as well as premature optimization. -- Bjarne Stroustrup

Remember, always be yourself ... unless you suck! -- Joss Whedon

The president was visiting NASA headquarters and stopped to talk to a man who was holding a mop. “And what do you do?” he asked. The man, a janitor, replied, “I’m helping to put a man on the moon, sir.” -- The little book of leadership

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ~Ralph Nader

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

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. ~John D. Rockefeller

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller