On one occasion a student burst into his office. "Professor Stigler, I
   don't believe I deserve this F you've given me." To which Stigler
   replied, "I agree, but unfortunately it is the lowest grade the
   University will allow me to award."

"If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of 
rubbish into it."

                                        - William A. Orton

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'. " 
    - Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back') 

The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin.

                                                           Hesiod (B.C. 800?)

There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle...
               "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all   
               other precepts depend.                                      

                                                       Plutarch (46-120 A.D.)