No problem should ever have to be solved twice. -- Eric S. Raymond, How to become a hacker

In theory, there’s no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is. -- Albert Einstein

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (attributed)

A hacker on a roll may be able to produce–in a period of a few months–something that a small development group (say, 7-8 people) would have a hard time getting together over a year. IBM used to report that certain programmers might be as much as 100 times as productive as other workers, or more. -- Peter Seebach

Revolutions come from standing on the shoulders of giants and facing in a better direction. -- Alan Kay

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. -- William Strunk, Jr. (The Elements of Style)

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. –Florence Nightingale

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. –Booker T. Washington

Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucius

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. ~Diane Ackerman