All great things require great dedication. -- Chuck Norris(?)

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. -- Donald Knuth

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)

Give up control. You never really had it anyway. -- How to fail: 25 secrets learned through failure

Making All Software Into Tools Reduces Risk. -- smoothspan.com

Acknowledging the negative doesn't mean sniveling [whining, complaining]; it means facing the truth and then moving on. -- George Leonard, Mastery.

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. –George Addair

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~Vidal Sassoon

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. ~Jane Smiley