No pain in love is so hard to bear as that which comes from the impossibility of doing any service for the well-beloved, and no service is so repulsive that love cannot make it delightful and easy. -Somerset Maugham, The Hero

“If you choose to read a book today, it’s not like a hundred years ago, when that was your only option. Today, when you read a book, you’re making a conscious decision not to play a video game, not to surf the web, not to watch a movie, not to turn on the TV. It does require a certain discipline to make that decision.” Neal Stephenson

Anger, resentment, envy and self-pity are wasteful reactions that greatly drain one’s time and sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors. Of course it is important to be a good listener — but it also pays, sometimes, to be a little deaf. - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Voltaire: “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.”

you don’t get healthy self-esteem from constantly telling yourself how great you are, or even from other people telling you how great you are. You get healthy self-esteem from behaving in ways that you find estimable.  - Gretchen Rubin, http://www.happiness-project.com

What moves men of genius, or rather, what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.” - Gretchen Rubin, http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/

“A man gets an immense amount of satisfaction from the knowledge of having done good work and of having made the best use of his day, and when I am in this state I find that I thoroughly enjoy my rest and even the mildest forms of recreation.”
“One always has to spoil a picture a little in order to finish it.”
“A man does not work only for the sake of producing, but to set a value on his time. We feel more satisfied with ourselves and with our day if we have stirred up our minds and made a good start, or have finished a piece of work.”
- Eugene Delacroix.

I’ve been saving these up. In random order, uncategorized, just throwing them out here… 

“Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought –Henry Bergson.”

it is intrinsically easier to compromise an organisation’s security where that organisation has chosen to entrust its data to a third party - Chris Linfoot

http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/01/24/stonebraker_dewitt_mapreduce/
Prediction: these guys have their own solution to sell.

Perhaps I would stick to a workout MADE for geeks in small spaces:
NASA WORKOUT: http://www.guardian.co.uk/space/article/0,,2240426,00.html

Two conferences I would LOVE to attend:

http://eatonconference.ucr.edu/
“Chrnicling Mars”, a Sci-fi conference with guest Ray Bradbury

http://www.startrek.com/custom/include/community/tour/
Star Trek: The Tour

WRITING OPPORTUNITIES/CONTESTS:
http://www.literarymama.com/interact/blog/archives/001859.html “Are We There Yet?”
Article for Skirt magazine: http://skirt.com/2008_themes 

“To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely in expectation of which they lived.” –Schopenhauer

Samuel Butler wrote, “Arrears of small things to be attended to, if allowed to accumulate, worry and depress like unpaid debts…If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.”

Samuel Johnson: “He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.”

“People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals / that is, goals that do not inspire them.”
- Anthony Robbins quote

“The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret” - Unknown
“If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it.” - Epictetus

“When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.” - Unknown

“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.” - Albert Schweitzer

Albert Einstein: “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”

• When we rationalize things we tend to cut ourselves slack and lean towards the option with the least effort.
• The more excuses I make the more tedious it gets, the less polished my skills.
- Baron VC , http://baron.vc/things-that-running-teaches-you-about-life

Everytime money changes hands, the Government gets a little piece of it. In theory, if money changes hands often enough, THE GOVERNMENT GETS ALL OF IT!! -Anonymous

 Recent good-looking books from Gutenberg:

A Martian Odyssey by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum > http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23731

“Resentment and gratitude cannot coexist, since resentment blocks the perception and experience of life as a gift. My resentment tells me that I don’t receive what I deserve. It always manifests itself in envy. Gratitude, however, goes beyond the ‘mine’ and ‘thine’ and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.” - Henri Nouwen

Wit is far more often used as a shield than as a lance. - anonymous

I, for one, am sick of hearing people blame those in authority as if they were expected to have the wisdom, power, and perfection of God. It’s about time to start judging other people by the standard we wish to have applied to ourselves. If you have ever expected other people to cut you a little slack and overlook your mistakes, then have the decency, when they make mistakes, to try to give them the benefit of the doubt, too.

Many people believe in the “catharsis hypothesis” and think that expressing anger is healthy-minded and relieves feelings. Not so. Studies demonstrate that expressing anger only AGGRAVATES it.
- Gretchen Rubin
http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/2007/08/in-which-i-beco.html

Literature exists to create memories so true and important that we allow them to become part of ourselves, shaping our future actions because we remember that once someone we admired did this, and someone we hated and feared did that.
- Orson Scott Card, Essay “Uncle Orson and the Deathly Hollows” (http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/2007-07-29-extra.shtml)

Literature matters only to the degree that it shapes and changes human behavior by making the audience wish to be better because they read it.
It becomes importantly bad only to the degree that it entices the audience to revel in actions and memories that debase the culture that embraces it.
- Orson Scott Card, Essay “Uncle Orson and the Deathly Hollows” (http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/2007-07-29-extra.shtml)

“Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.” - Robert A Heinlein