There really is no learning without doing. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education
Never do the impossible. People will expect you to do it forever after. -- pigsandfishes.com
No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side. If you keep waiting, it will comme up. -- Randy Pausch
A no uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a yes merely uttered to please or what is worse, to avoid trouble. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Some people suggest that machines would be friendlier if input could be in a natural language. But natural language is probably the worst kind of input because it can be quite ambiguous. The process of retrieving information from the computer would be so time-consuming that you would be better off spending that time getting the information directly from an expert. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. -- C.S. Lewis
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly. ~Proverb
It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. –Ann Landers
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing - that’s why we recommend it daily. ~Zig Ziglar
Fortune sides with him who dares. ~Virgil