September 26, 2011
It is our ability to apply our ideas and their embodiment in code to a dizzying array of problems, from the prosaic to the profound, that attracts and compels us. It is why we compute.

Daniel Reed
Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Research
Source: “Why We Compute”
Via: Derek Gottfrid
Labels: Computing
September 13, 2011
The loss of people writing—writing a composition, a letter or a report—is not just the loss for the record. It’s the loss of the process of working your thoughts out on paper, of having an idea that you would never have had if you weren’t [writing]. And that’s a handicap. People [I research] were writing letters every day. That was calisthenics for the brain.

David McCullough
Historian
Source: 10 Questions by TIME
Labels: Writing
September 7, 2011
Inspiration is a by-product of discipline… simply getting up everyday and planning, plotting, sketching, setting up or actually applying paint to a painting.

Beverly Claridge
Artist
Labels: Inspiration