Mahatma GandhiWe need to be the change we wish to see in the world.
Theodor HerzlIf you will it, it is no dream.
Hillel (Pirkei Avot)אם אין אני לי, מי לי? וכשאני לעצמי, מה אני? ואם לא עכשיו, אימתי?
If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?
Mark Twain (attributed)Never let your schooling interfere with your education.
Aragorn (J.R.R. Tolkein)A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship. But it is not this day.
Voltaire (attributed)I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
CiceroThe welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs)Programs should be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
Alexis de TocquevilleThe American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
Daniel Patrick MoynihanYou are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.