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

Rules of Optimization: Rule 1: Don’t do it. Rule 2 (for experts only): Don’t do it yet. -- M.A. Jackson

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)

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. -- Mario Andretti

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.

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

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them. ~Vaibhav Shah

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. ~Henry Kravis

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

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown