Write it properly first. It's easier to make a correct program fast, than to make a fast program correct. -- http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. -- Bill Gates

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. -- Hans Hofmann

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

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for. -- Greek philosopher Epicurus

That is the inevitable human response. We’re reluctant to believe that great discoveries are in the air. We want to believe that great discoveries are in our heads—and to each party in the multiple the presence of the other party is invariably cause for suspicion. -- Malcolm Gladwell, Who says big ideas are rare?

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself--the invisible battles inside all of us--that's where it's at. –Jesse Owens

The starting point of all achievement is desire. ~Napolean Hill

The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place. ~Guy Kawasaki