Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -- Mark Twain

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. -- unknown

The proof is by reductio ad absurdum, and reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician’s finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess gambit: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game. -- G. H. Hardy

A person won't become proficient at something until he or she has done it many times. In other words., if you want someone to be really good at building a software system, he or she will have to have built 10 or more systems of that type. -- Philip Greenspun

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

Attitude is no substitute for competence. -- Eric S. Raymond, How to become a hacker

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. –Unknown

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. ~Audre Lorde

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. ~George Lorimer

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