Seize any opportunity, or anything that looks like opportunity. They are rare, much rarer than you think... -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, "The Black Swan".

Why teach drawing to accountants? Because drawing class doesn't just teach people to draw. It teaches them to be more observant. There's no company on earth that wouldn't benefit from having people become more observant. -- Randy S. Nelson (dean of Pixar University)

Good work is no done by ‘humble’ men. -- H. Hardy, A mathematician's apology.

Another feature about this guy is his low threshold of boredom. He'll pick up on a task and work frantically at it, accomplishing wonders in a short time and then get bored and drop it before its properly finished. He'll do nothing but strum his guitar and lie around in bed for several days after. Thats also part of the pattern too; periods of frenetic activity followed by periods of melancholia, withdrawal and inactivity. This is a bipolar personality. -- The bipolar lisp programmer

1 - Creativity and innovation always build on the past. 2 - The past always tries to control the creativity that builds on it. 3 - Free societies enable the future by limiting the past. 4 - Ours is less and less a free society. -- Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. -- Hans Hofmann

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~Anonymous

It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln

The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do. ~Anonymous

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt