The wonderful and frustrating thing about understanding yourself is that nobody can do it for you. -- BetterExplained.com

If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough. -- Alan Kay

A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longuer anything to add, but when there is no longuer anything to take away. -- Antoine de St Exupery.

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

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it. -- Alberti

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines produced but as lines spent. -- Edsger Dijkstra

If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient. ~Gurbaksh Chahal

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. –George Addair

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby