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.

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

C’s great for what it’s great for. -- Ben Hoyts (micropledge)

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them. -- Alan Perlis

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

A society that puts equality -- in the sense of equality of outcome -- ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests. -- Milton Friedman (Thomas Sowell: A Conflict of Visions, p130)

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. –Florence Nightingale