Good artists copy. Great artists steal. -- Pablo Picasso

I was talking recently to a friend who teaches at MIT. His field is hot now and every year he is inundated by applications from would-be graduate students. "A lot of them seem smart," he said. "What I can't tell is whether they have any kind of taste." -- Paul Graham

Work as intensely as you play and play as intensely as you work. -- Eric S. Raymond, How To Be A Hacker

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Cited by Randy Pausch

I think the root of your mistake is saying that macros don't scale to larger groups. The real truth is that macros don't scale to stupider groups. -- Paul Graham, on the Lightweight Languages mailing list.

Seize any opportunity, or anything that looks like opportunity. They are rare, much rarer than you think... -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, "The Black Swan".

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone

14.Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. –Mark Twain

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs

Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them. ~Anonymous