The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: "I did not have time." -- WestHost weekly newsletter 14 Feb 2003
Mastering isn’t a survival instinct; it’s an urge to excel. Mastering is one of the experiences that delineates us from animals. It is striving to be more tomorrow than we are today; to perfectly pitch the ball over home plate; to craft the perfect sentence in an article; to open the oven and feel the warm, richly-scented cloud telling you dinner is going to be absolutely extraordinary. We humans crave perfection, to be masters of our domain, to distinguish ourselves by sheer skill and prowess. -- Joesgoals.com
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. -- Elie Wiesel
To follow the path: look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master. -- Modern zen Poem
Well, if you talk about programming to a group of programmers who use the same language, they can become almost evangelistic about the language. They form a tight-knit community, hold to certain beliefs, and follow certain rules in their programming. It’s like a church with a programming language for a Bible. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).
Ce n'est que par les relations qu'on entretient entre nos différentes connaissances qu'elles nous restent accessibles. -- Shnuup, sur l'hypertexte (SELFHTML -> Introduction -> Definitions sur l'hypertexte)
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. ~Thomas A. Edison
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand
Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it. ~Anonymous
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. ~Anonymous