A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. -- Hugh Kingsmill

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -- Thomas Edison

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. -- C.S. Lewis

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -- Sherlock Holmes

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

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

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus

We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret. ~Earl Nightingale

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

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. ~Mark Twain