Hence my urgent advice to all of you to reject the morals of the bestseller society and to find, to start with, your reward in your own fun. This is quite feasible, for the challenge of simplification is so fascinating that, if we do our job properly, we shall have the greatest fun in the world. -- E. W. Dijkstra, On the nature of computing science.

Rules of Optimization: Rule 1: Don’t do it. Rule 2 (for experts only): Don’t do it yet. -- M.A. Jackson

That is one of the most distinctive differences between school and the real world: there is no reward for putting in a good effort. In fact, the whole concept of a "good effort" is a fake idea adults invented to encourage kids. It is not found in nature. -- Paul Graham

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

If something isn’t working, you need to look back and figure out what got you excited in the first place. -- David Gorman (ImThere.com)

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

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand

What’s the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable. ~Anonymous

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. ~Anonymous

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. ~Thomas Jefferson