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Some problems are so complex that you have to be
highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
Laurence J. Peter

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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
But, in practice, there is.
Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
(the original variation was probably by Yogi Berra)

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For a successful technology,
reality must take precedence over public relations,
for nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. Feynman

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Architecture is geometry in space
Music is geometry in time.

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You must do
what others don't
to achieve
what others won't.
Laura Mitchell's ceiling

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Work and hope. But never hope more than you work.
Beryl Markham's father

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It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't care who gets the credit.
Harry S. Truman

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Be the change you wish to see in the world
Gandhi

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All men dream; but not equally.
Those who dream by night in the dusty
recesses of their minds
Awake to find that it was vanity;
But the dreamers of day are dangerous men.
That they may act their dreams with open
eyes to make it possible.
T. E. Lawrence (aka Lawrence of Arabia)

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Men wanted for hazardous journey.
Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness,
constant danger, safe return doubtful.
Honour and recognition in case of success.
Sir Ernest Shackleton (apocryphal)

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These are the hard times in which a genius would wish to live.
Abigail Adams

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If you can answer "yes" to these three questions, then you probably have a good job (and manager):
Do I know what is expected of me?
Do I have the opportunity to do what I do best every day?
Does someone at work care about me?

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Either what we do everyday is important, or nothing is.
George Sheehan

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Where is the rare one? Where is the saint?
Who has the words of beauty?
Bobby McFerrin

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Where'd all the good people go?
I've been changing channels I don't see them on the tv shows
Where'd all the good people go?
We've got heaps and heaps of what we sow
Jack Johnson

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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful,
or believe to be beautiful.
William Morris

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The ant is knowing and wise; but
he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.
Clarence Day