Words of Wisdom

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Gandhi

A government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

You make a living from what you get, you make a life from what you give. - Winston Churchill

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. - Winston Churchill

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. - Winston Churchill

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. - Winston Churchill

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. - Winston Churchill

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, the banks and corporations that will grow around them, will deprive the people of their property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered - Thomas Jefferson

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Laws

Godwin's Law: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
Peter Principle: In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Dilbert principle: Leadership is nature's way of removing morons from the productive flow.
Parkinson's Law: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
Conway's Law: Any piece of software reflects the organizational structure that produced it.
Dunbar's Number: A theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships.
Dunning-Kruger Effect: Is a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their mistakes.