We remember what we learn when we care about performing better and when we believe that what we have been asked to do is representative of reality. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

It was Edison who said ‘1% inspiration, 99% perspiration’. That may have been true a hundred years ago. These days it's ‘0.01% inspiration, 99.99% perspiration’, and the inspiration is the easy part. -- Linux Torvalds

C++ is like teenage sex: Everybody is talking about it all the time, only few are really doing it. -- 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

What I didn't understand was that the value of some new acquisition wasn't the difference between its retail price and what I paid for it. It was the value I derived from it. Stuff is an extremely illiquid asset. Unless you have some plan for selling that valuable thing you got so cheaply, what difference does it make what it's "worth?" The only way you're ever going to extract any value from it is to use it. And if you don't have any immediate use for it, you probably never will. -- Paul Graham

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. -- Aristotle.

Fortune sides with him who dares. ~Virgil

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals. ~Booker T. Washington

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

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. –Jamie Paolinetti