We tend to seek easy, single-factor explanations of success. For most important things, though, success actually requires avoiding many separate causes of failure. -- Jared Diamond

The proof is by reductio ad absurdum, and reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician’s finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess gambit: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game. -- G. H. Hardy

A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longuer anything to add, but when there is no longuer anything to take away. -- Antoine de St Exupery.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. -- Rush (Freewill)

There really is no learning without doing. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

640K ought to be enough for anybody. -- Bill Gates, 1981

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. ~Henry Kravis

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.~ Anatole France