Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distractions. Instead of stilling the center, the axis of the wheel, we add more centrifugal activities to our lives—which tend to throw us off balance. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh ( Gift from the Sea )

One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and the rest don’t mean shit. - from the movie, City Slickers

I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passersby to drop their unused minutes in to it. - Bernard Berenson

In a delightful talk, Daniel Kahneman , proposes a different notion of happiness , that which has two elements, Experiencing Self and Remembering Self. If you were told that, at the end of your vacation, all the great pictures that you have taken and the memories associated with the vacation would be erased, Would you still opt for that vacation ? http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf

I am a great fan of 37 signals. I have been using backpackit service for the last 5 years and have always loved the web app for its simplicity and UI design. The fact that Ruby on Rails got a major push because of the founders , is one of the best things to happen for people who believe in rapid prototyping, as they could use Ruby on Rails to quickly test the traction for their web app ideas.