- "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion,
butcher a hog, steer a schooner, design a building, write a sonnet,
balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take
orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a
new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal,
fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
This was said by Robert Heinlein in Time Enough for Love, and should be remembered
- "When I was growing up, I always wanted to be somebody, but now I see
that I should have been more specific." -- Lily Tomlin
- "History, despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived, but if faced
with courage, need not be lived again.
Lift up your eyes upon the day breaking for you.
Give birth again to the dream"
By Maya Angelou. It appears in “Lifting our Voices: Readings in the Living Tradition.”
- "Aim for enthusiastic consensus while imagining yourself as an elephant, with
thick skin to handle rejection and big ears with which to listen."
By Edwin O'Shea. It appears in "Proofs are Like Love Songs" Math
Horizons, 26:2, 34-34, Nov. 2018.
