We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection. It's about a process, a journey. The master is the one who stays on the path day after day, year after year. The master is the one who is willing to try, and fail, and try again, for as long as he or she lives. -- George Leonard, Mastery.

I think the root of your mistake is saying that macros don't scale to larger groups. The real truth is that macros don't scale to stupider groups. -- Paul Graham, on the Lightweight Languages mailing list.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain

Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming. -- Donald Knuth

In theory, there’s no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is. -- Albert Einstein

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline. -- Bill Clinton

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. ~ Jim Rohn

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. –Beverly Sills

Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. – Ancient Indian Proverb

It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot