Work as intensely as you play and play as intensely as you work. -- Eric S. Raymond, How To Be 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.

Only bad designers blame their failings on the users. -- unknown

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex, intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple, stupid behavior. -- Dee Hock, Birth of the Chaordic Age

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

Being a programmer is the same way. The only way to be a good programmer is to write code. When you realize you haven't been writing much code lately, and it seems like all you do is brag about code you wrote in the past, and people start looking at you funny while you're shooting your mouth off, realize it's because they know. They might not even know they know, but they know. So, yes, doing what you love brings success, and by all means, throw yourself a nice big party, buy yourself a nice car, soak up the adulation of an adoring crowd. Then shut the fuck up and get back to work. -- Sincerity Theory

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. ~Thomas Jefferson

Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain. ~Anonymous

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon