Be the change you want to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi

A hacker on a roll may be able to produce–in a period of a few months–something that a small development group (say, 7-8 people) would have a hard time getting together over a year. IBM used to report that certain programmers might be as much as 100 times as productive as other workers, or more. -- Peter Seebach

Are you willing to wear your white belt? -- George Leonard, Mastery.

I was talking recently to a friend who teaches at MIT. His field is hot now and every year he is inundated by applications from would-be graduate students. "A lot of them seem smart," he said. "What I can't tell is whether they have any kind of taste." -- Paul Graham

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -- Sherlock Holmes

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

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. ~Walt Disney

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. –Sheryl Sandberg

It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford