Stay awake

There are a few key moments in anyone's life. A person is fortunate if he can tell in hindsight when they happened.
—Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

What's next for you?

It's not luck, my friends. It's choice. One of the greatest lessons I ever learned was in a book by Og Mandino, entitled "The Greatest Secret in the World." The lesson? Very simple: "Use wisely your power of choice."
—Neal Boortz, Texan, lawyer, Texas Aggie, and nationally syndicated talk show host
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/boortz.asp

How far can you go?

Companies rapidly found out about us, and were actually offering written three-year commitments to hire our students, which meant they were promising to hire people we hadn't even admitted yet.
—Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

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