Sound methodology can empower and liberate the creative mind; it cannot inflame or inspire the drudge. -- Frederick P. Brooks, No Sliver Bullet.

Talkers are no good doers. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -- Benjamin Franklin

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

I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay

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

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria Steinem

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. ~Francis Chan

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou