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

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. -- Winston Churchill

Are you willing to wear your white belt? -- George Leonard, Mastery.

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

What we choose to fight is so tiny! What fights us is so great! ... When we win it's with small things, and the triumph itself makes us small. ... Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings. -- Rainer Maria Rilke, The Man Watching.

Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means. -- Dr. Koichi Kawana

If you can dream it, you can achieve it. –Zig Ziglar

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. ~John D. Rockefeller

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. ~Margaret Thatcher

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt