Life

"When you've finished changing, you're finished."
Benjamin Franklin

Life

"The impossible is often the untried."
Jim Goodwins

Science

"Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope."
C P Snow

Computers

"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers."
Sydney J Harris

Life

"Never mistake motion for action."
Ernest Hemingway

Logic

"Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence."
Charles Kettering

Ideas

"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."
John Steinbeck

Math

“Numbers are like people; torture them enough and they will tell you anything.”
Anonymous

Life

"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."
Henry Brooks Adams

Technology

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Sir Arthur C Clarke

Peace

“Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me.”

Thomas S Monson, “The Doorway of Love”, Ensign, Oct 1996, pg 2

6 Events

“If you want to make quantum improvements, change your paradigm, your map.”

Steven R Covey, “6 Events”, pg 10

6 Events

“You will find in the entire history of science and humankind that almost every significant breakthrough was a “breakwith” – a break with some traditional belief or doctrine or paradigm.”

Stephen R Covey, “6 Events”, pg 9

Problems

“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”

Albert Einstein

Church

“True doctrine, understood, changes attitudes and behavior. The study of the doctrines of the gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study of behavior will improve behavior.”

President Boyd K Packer, “Do Not Fear”, Ensign, Nov 1986, pg 17

Programming

“We follow two rules in the matter of optimization:
Rule 1 Don’t do it.
Rule 2 (for Experts only) Don’t do it yet – that is, not until you have perfectly clear and un-optimized solution.”

M A Jackson [Jackson75]

Programming

“We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.”

Donald E Knuth [Knuth74]

Programming

“More Computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason – including blind stupidity.”

William A Wulf [Wulf72]