Purpose

I wanna make beautiful things, even if nobody cares - Saul Bass http://j.mp/gtuEF0

I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me - JK Rowling, http://harvardmagazine.com/go/jkrowling.html

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be - Douglas Adams

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble - Helen Keller

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive - Joseph Campbell

I do this because I'm interested in saving 100,000 lives a day - Aubrey de Grey http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/aug/01/aubrey-de-grey-ageing-…

I cannot bite the day to the core - Edward Thomas

I appreciate the value of being a competent generalist, a connector, someone who transplants ideas to terrains where no one else could see them taking root. Many have told me that's what I do, and do well, and I should be content with that, and keep doing it. And I will. But I won't be content with that. Something in me is still waiting, and struggling, to get out, to escape all the not-me gunk that I have let be attached to me over the years to the point that something important in me has become invisible, even to me. Most of all to me. With practice, I think, I could find it, and set it free - Dave Pollard, http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2013/01/16/want-to-want-to/

Human beings are not born once... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves - Gabriel Garcia Márquez http://j.mp/ZbXNBp

For what purpose is all the toil and bustle of this world? What is the end of the pursuit of wealth, power and pre-eminence? To be observed, to be attended to, to be taken notice of with sympathy, complacency, and approbation - Adam Smith in The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)