Why teach drawing to accountants? Because drawing class doesn't just teach people to draw. It teaches them to be more observant. There's no company on earth that wouldn't benefit from having people become more observant. -- Randy S. Nelson (dean of Pixar University)

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. -- Cicero

A guideline in the process of stepwise refinement should be the principle to decompose decisions as much as possible, to untangle aspects which are only seemingly interdependent, and to defer those decisions which concern details of representation as long as possible. -- Niklaus Wirth

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. -- Benjamin Franklin

Luck is where preparation meets opportunity. -- Randy Pausch

New eyes have X-ray vision. [someone that hasn't written it is more likely to spot the bug. "someone" can be you after a break] -- William S. Annis

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.~ Oscar Wilde

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth

Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. –Jesus

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~Eleanor Roosevelt