To do something well you have to love it. So to the extent you can preserve hacking as something you love, you're likely to do it well. Try to keep the sense of wonder you had about programming at age 14. If you're worried that your current job is rotting your brain, it probably is. -- Paul Graham.

Be the change you want to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi

Never do the impossible. People will expect you to do it forever after. -- pigsandfishes.com

I think it is wise, and only honest, to warn you that my goal is immodest. It is not my purpose to "transfer knowledge" to you that, subsequently, you can forget again. My purpose is no less than to effectuate in each of you a noticeable, irreversable change. I want you to gain, for the rest of your lives, the insight that beautiful proofs are not "found" by trial anf error but are the result of a consciously applied design discipline. I want you to raise your quality standards. I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me. -- E. W. Dijkstra

Attitude is no substitute for competence. -- Eric S. Raymond, How to become a hacker

The only constant in the world of hi-tech is change. -- Mark Ward

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle

If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary. ~Jim Rohn

Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions. –Dalai Lama