It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
-- Aristotle
Depths of Winter
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
-- Albert Camus
Intelligence
I don't know that we -- meaning people in general -- ever do. Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in the absence of good memory. It's the ability to draw consequences from causes, to make correct inferences, to foresee what might be the result, to work out logical problems, to be reasonable, rational, to have the ability to understand the solution from perhaps insufficient information. You know when a person is intelligent, but you can be easily fooled if you are not yourself intelligent
-- Isaac Asimov
Communications
Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.
-- Gen. Alfred. M. Gray, USMC
Integrity
Integrity has no need of rules
-- Albert Camus
Accomplishment
You can only accomplish extraordinary things by involving excellent people who can do things that you cannot.
-- All's Fair: Love, war and Running for President, James Carville , Mary Matalin, Peter Knobler
Programming
90% of code written today is getting around other peoples mistakes
-- Alan Kay
Eternity
To see a world in a grain of sand
and a heaven in a wild flower,
hold infinity in the palm of your hand
and eternity in an hour.
-- William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
Preciseness
It is better to be wrong than to be vague
-- Freeman Dyson
The Ordinary
Superficial people find the extraordinary fascinating and profound people find the ordinary riveting.
-- Julian Barbour