Luck is where preparation meets opportunity. -- Randy Pausch

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. -- John Lennon

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. -- Dr. Seuss

Seize any opportunity, or anything that looks like opportunity. They are rare, much rarer than you think... -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, "The Black Swan".

When you’ve got the code all ripped apart, it’s like a car that’s all disassembled. You’ve got all the parts tying all over your garage and you have to replace the broken part or the car will never run. It’s not fun until the code gets back to the baseline again. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

In general, we can think of data as defined by some collection of selectors and constructors, together with specified conditions that these procedures must fulfill in order to be a valid representation. -- SICP, What is meant by data?

You become what you believe. –Oprah Winfrey

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear. –Rosa Parks

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ~Ralph Nader