As builders and creators finding the perfect solution should not be our main goal. We should find the perfect problem. -- Isaac (blog comment)

I was talking recently to a friend who teaches at MIT. His field is hot now and every year he is inundated by applications from would-be graduate students. "A lot of them seem smart," he said. "What I can't tell is whether they have any kind of taste." -- Paul Graham

A person won't retain proficiency at a task unless he or she has at one time learned to perform that task very rapidly. Learning research demonstrates that the skills of people who become accurate but not fast deteriorate much sooner than the skills of people who become both accurate and fast. -- Philip Greenspun

You will never become a Great Programmer until you acknowledge that you will always be a Terrible Programmer. You will remain a Great Programmer for only as long as you acknowledge that you are still a Terrible Programmer. -- Marc (http://kickin-the-darkness.blogspot.com/)

It(mastering)’s knowing what you are doing. -- Joesgoals.com

Acknowledging the negative doesn't mean sniveling [whining, complaining]; it means facing the truth and then moving on. -- George Leonard, Mastery.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. ~Albert Einstein

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. –Anne Frank

It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. –Mae Jemison

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