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

But what is it good for? -- Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, commenting on the microchip, 1968

It is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. -- Edsger Dijkstra

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Omit needless words. -- William Strunk, Jr. (The Elements of Style)

No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side. If you keep waiting, it will comme up. -- Randy Pausch

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. ~Thomas A. Edison

You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. –Unknown

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb

14.Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. –Mark Twain