Ability – Thomas H. Huxley

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

Life – Randy Pausch

It is not how many years you live in your life, it is how much life in your years that matters

Character – Abraham Lincoln

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Beauty – Jean Kerr

I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Simplicity – Jim Horning

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Happiness – Al Batt

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Instinct – Cicero

The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.

Ignorance – Enrico Fermi

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Computers – Andy Rooney

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done.

Creativity – Carl Jung

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

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