Good quotes to think about:

1. Chance favors the prepared mind.

   -- Louis Pasteur

2. Science advances funeral by funeral.

   -- Max Planck

3. The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

   -- Damon Runyon

4. We just don't see what we can't model.

   -- Paul Krugman

5. Make the difficult routine.

   -- Unattributed

6. Writing is a concentrated form of thinking. I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.

   -- Don DeLillo

7. It is through exchange that difference becomes a blessing, not a curse.

   -- Jonathan Sacks

8. The individual with the greatest flexibility of thought and behaviour can and generally will control the outcome of any interaction.

   -- ImprovingSchoolBehaviour

9. For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong

   -- Corrupted from H L Mencken's Explanations exist; they have existed for all time

10. Many shall be restored that are now fallen and many shall fall that are now in honor

    -- Horace

11. Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.

    -- Thomas Carlyle

12. Given an option to do so, all men prefer to reject information.

    -- Bill James (Baseball Abstract for 1985)

13. Smart people don't walk into telephone poles.

    -- Anon.

14. There are two pains in life: there's the pain of discipline, and then there's the pain of regret. You choose which one.

    -- Josiah O'Brien