Side projects are less masturbatory than reading RSS, often more useful than MobileMe, more educational than the comments on Reddit, and usually more fun than listening to keynotes. -- Chris Wanstrath

Luck is where preparation meets opportunity. -- Randy Pausch

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it. -- Alberti

Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. -- Thomas Edison

Another feature about this guy is his low threshold of boredom. He'll pick up on a task and work frantically at it, accomplishing wonders in a short time and then get bored and drop it before its properly finished. He'll do nothing but strum his guitar and lie around in bed for several days after. Thats also part of the pattern too; periods of frenetic activity followed by periods of melancholia, withdrawal and inactivity. This is a bipolar personality. -- The bipolar lisp programmer

Dont give users the opportunity to lock themselves. -- unknown

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. –Henry David Thoreau

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker

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