There really is no learning without doing. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

All great things require great dedication. -- Chuck Norris(?)

Making All Software Into Tools Reduces Risk. -- smoothspan.com

Lisp programmers know the value of everything but the cost of nothing. -- Alan J. Perlis

I had to learn how to teach less, so that more could be learned. -- Tim Gallwey, The inner game of work

Humans differ from animals to the degree that they are not merely an end result of their conditioning, but are able to reflect on their experiences and strategies, and apply insight to make changes in the way they live to modify the outcome. -- SlideTrombone (comment on "Programming can ruin your life")

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. ~Thomas A. Edison

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. ~Steve Jobs

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. ~Truman Capote

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. –Bob Dylan