"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home. The remarkable thing is that we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you..we are in charge of our attitudes."

- Charles Swindoll

"Let the excellence of your work be your protest." - Dr. William Lane

"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot

"I see excellence as the process, not merely the outcome: doing things in a way that's beyond reproach, so that when you look back on it, there's nothing to be ashamed of. It doesn't mean everything turns out perfectly, necessarily but everything has been done with utmost integrity and an earnest desire to do the right thing." - Charles Webb

"I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the state of Science, whatever the matter may be." - Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)

"Dishonest scales are an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight." - Proverbs 11:1

If someone tells me they ran a program once and it ran fine and then they ran it again without changing anything and it ran much slower, I ask them "If you didn't change anything, why did you run it again." - Virg Meredith (IBM Performance Great)