In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume that it is true and try to find out what it could be true of. -- George Miller
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -- Benjamin Franklin
Students should be evaluated on how well they can achieve the goals they strived to achieve within a realistic context. Students need to learn to do things, not know things. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education
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)
The president was visiting NASA headquarters and stopped to talk to a man who was holding a mop. “And what do you do?” he asked. The man, a janitor, replied, “I’m helping to put a man on the moon, sir.” -- The little book of leadership
Always dive down into a problem and get your hands on the deepest issue behind the problem. All other considerations are to dismissed as "engineering details"; they can be sorted out after the basic problem has been solved. -- Chris Crawford
We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –Marie Curie
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker
Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” –Audrey Hepburn