quote from shimon peres

The most careful thing is to dare.
- Shimon Peres

Marcus Aurelius's Meditations

The person who loves reputation supposes that his own good depends on the activity of others; the lover of pleasures finds his own good in being affected by his emotions. But the person who has Intelligence understands the good to be in his own actions.

from dilbert creator

an artist listens to his inner calling and hopes the public agrees. A business person listens to the audience and gives them what they want

Book of Changes

Take not gain or loss to heart.
What man holds high comes to nothing.

Do not waste even a moment on gains and losses when death is plucking your ears saying, "Live! I am coming."

ayn rand -hope

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

Your Work...

your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears
that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair

-Ann Dillard in the Writing Life

Clojure recursive accumulator

I'm trying to extract all values with a certain key in an arbitrarily nested value in clojure.
I couldn't find this functionality right off the bat in core/contrib, so I decided to write it, if there's a better way to do this, leave a comment! I'm not completely happy with my implementation.