Do you want to sell sugared water all your life or do you want to change the world? -- Steve Jobs, to John Sculley (former Pepsi executive)

I think that a lot of programmers are ignoring an important point when people talk about reducing code repetition on large projects. Part of the idea is that large projects are intrinsically *wrong*. That you should be looking at making a number of smaller projects that are composable, even if you never end up reusing one of those smaller projects elsewhere. -- Dan Nugent

Processors don't get better so that they can have more free time. Processors get better so _you_ can have more free time. -- LeCamarade (freeshells.ch)

640K ought to be enough for anybody. -- Bill Gates, 1981

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -- Alan Kay

Good ideas are out there for anyone with the wit and the will to find them. -- Malcolm Gladwell, Who says big ideas are rare?

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. ~Mark Twain

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. ~David Brinkley