Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act — if you can’t control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word. -- Nassim Taleb

Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot. -- Eric S. Raymond

If something isn’t working, you need to look back and figure out what got you excited in the first place. -- David Gorman (ImThere.com)

A no uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a yes merely uttered to please or what is worse, to avoid trouble. -- Mahatma Gandhi

The direct pursuit of happiness is a recipe for an unhappy life. -- Donald Campbell

Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS. -- Alan Kay

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ~Swami Vivekananda

Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it. ~Anonymous

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