Forward progress?

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

~ Buckminster Fuller

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

~ George Burns

Begin with the End in Mind

I write about people who sometime in their life have a vision or dream of something that should be accomplished and they go to work. They are beaten over the head, knocked down, vilified, and for years they get nowhere. But every time they're knocked down they stand up. You cannot destroy these people. And at the end of their lives they've accomplished some modest part of what they set out to do.

~ Irving Stone, American writer and biographer

Manipulating for College Student Diversity

Show me a college where most of the learning results from exposure to other students, and I’ll show you an institution that isn’t worth the tuition it charges.

~ Roger Clegg in
Chronicle of Higher Education

Ben, on education

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Definitions: Creativity, Art, Success, Happiness

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

~ Scott Adams

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

~Dale Carnegie

Trekkies and Wisdom

We're just very proud to honor Dad with this star. A lot of Star Trek fans helped us out with this.

--Chris Doohan, whose father, James Doohan--Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery Scott on the original 60's series--received a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. The event was expected to be the final public appearance for the 84-year-old actor, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

--Theodore Roosevelt