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If you're a research scientist what you want is not retirement but another 500 years.
    Edwin Land
    (quoted in the book Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land - Victor K. McElheny )

The juvenile seasquirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or coral to cling to and make its home for life. For
this task it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it.
It's rather like getting tenure.
    Daniel C. Dennett, in Consciousness Explained
    (pinched from  Michael A. Erickson's Home Page )

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "apparently ordinary" people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.
    K. Patricia Cross
    (Pinched from: http://www2.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/Columns/Quotes3.html )

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Louis Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein.
    H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
    (Pinched from: http://www2.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/Columns/Quotes3.html )

You can accomplish anything you want in life provided you don't mind who gets the credit.
    Harry Truman
    (pinched from: http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/~bonnie/chapbook.html)

The first camel in the caravan hold everyone up, but it’s the last camel which gets the beating.
    Ethiopian proverb

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
    Albert Einstein
    (pinched from: http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/awc-thkg.htm )