Simplicity takes effort-- genius, even. -- Paul Graham

If something isn’t working, you need to look back and figure out what got you excited in the first place. -- David Gorman (ImThere.com)

If there is a will, there is a way. -- unknown

Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. -- Alan J. Perlis

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Cited by Randy Pausch

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald Knuth

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. –Robert Frost

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. ~Francis Chan

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ~Swami Vivekananda

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. ~Jane Smiley