No matter how much you plan you’re likely to get half wrong anyway. So don’t do the ‘paralysis through analysis’ thing. That only slows progress and saps morale. -- 37 Signal, Getting real

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

Simple things should be simple. Complex things should be possible. -- Alan Kay

What is truth? -- Pontius Pilate

[How friendly will this machine be?] Well, I don’t think it’s a matter of friendliness, because ultimately if the program is going to accomplish anything of value, it will probably be relatively complex. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

Opportunities that present themselves to you are the consequence -- at least partially -- of being in the right place at the right time. They tend to present themselves when you're not expecting it -- and often when you are engaged in other activities that would seem to preclude you from pursuing them. And they come and go quickly -- if you don't jump all over an opportunity, someone else generally will and it will vanish. -- Marc Andreessen (http://blog.pmarca.com/)

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. ~Maya Angelou

You become what you believe. –Oprah Winfrey

We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret. ~Earl Nightingale

Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions. –Dalai Lama