So the mere constraint of staying in regular contact with us will push you to make things happen, because otherwise you'll be embarrassed to tell us that you haven't done anything new since the last time we talked. -- Paul Graham (a talk at Y Combinator, for startup creators).

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. -- Cicero

A witty saying proves nothing -- Voltaire

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

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

A CS professor once explained recursion as follows: A child couldn't sleep, so her mother told her a story about a little frog, who couldn't sleep, so the frog's mother told her a story about a little bear, who couldn't sleep, so the bear's mother told her a story about a little weasel... who fell asleep. ...and the little bear fell asleep; ...and the little frog fell asleep; ...and the child fell asleep. -- everything2.com

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. –Leonardo da Vinci

Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life. ~Dr. APJ Kalam

If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got. ~Anonymous

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