Words to live by

"Lewis and Clark were lost most of the time. If your idea of exploration is to always know where you are and to be inside your zone of competence, you don't do wild new [stuff]. You have to be confused, upset, think you're stupid. If you're not willing to do that, you can't go outside the box." - Nathan Myhrvold, the former head of Microsoft's R&D labs about Bill Gates

"All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim,have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible." - Unknown