Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.-Arthur C. Clarke       People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.-Alan Kay     The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.-Andrew Brown     Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle.-James Surowiecki       The first rule…

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.-e. e. cummings     We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.-Bryan White     Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.-G. Stanley Hall     Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.-Carol Burnett     Keep true to the dreams of your youth.-Friedrich Schiller     Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn’t. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces. – Marilyn vos Savant     So many people try to grow up too fast, and…

  Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.-Melody Beattie       If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.-Meister Eckhart     No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.-Alfred North Whitehead     Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the…