[Innovation] comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important. -- Steve Jobs

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

If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough. -- Alan Kay

The reason to do animation is caricature. Good caricature picks out the essense of the statement and removes everything else. It's not simply about reproducing reality; It's about bumping it up. -- Brad Bird, writer and director, The Incredibles

Talkers are no good doers. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

In general, we can think of data as defined by some collection of selectors and constructors, together with specified conditions that these procedures must fulfill in order to be a valid representation. -- SICP, What is meant by data?

The mind is everything. What you think you become. –Buddha

Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them. ~Vaibhav Shah

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