The most damaging phrase in the language is, It's always been done that way. -- Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for. -- Greek philosopher Epicurus

What is truth? -- Pontius Pilate

We really have to get over the idea that some stuff is just worth knowing even if you never do anything with it. Human memories happily erase stuff that has no purpose, so why try to fill up children's heads with such stuff? -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. -- Philip Greenspun (Greenspun's Tenth Rule)

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. -- Bertrand Russell

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself--the invisible battles inside all of us--that's where it's at. –Jesse Owens

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. ~Theodore N. Vail

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford

Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument. ~Anonymous