Workers of the world, the chains that bind you are not held in place by a ruling class, a "superior" race, by society, the state, or a leader. They are held in place by none other than yourself. Those who seek to exploit are not themselves free, for they place no value in freedom. Who is it that really employs you and commands you to pick up your daily load? And who is it that you allow to pass judgment on the adequacy of your toil? Who have you empowered to dangle the carrot before you and threaten with disapproval? Who, when you wake each morning, sends you off to what you call your work? Is there an "I want to" behind all your "I have to," or have you been so long forgotten to yourself that "I want" exists only as an idea in your head? If you have disconnected from your soul's desire and are drowning in an ocean of "have to," then rise up and overthrow your master. Begin the journey toward emancipation. Work only in such a way that you are truly self-employed. -- Tim Gallwey, The inner game of work

The only constant in the world of hi-tech is change. -- Mark Ward

You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery and you create a feeling of strength in reserve. -- Pablo Picasso

PI seconds is a nanocentury. -- [fact]

It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. -- E. W. Dijkstra

An interpreter raises the machine to the level of the user program; a compiler lowers the user program to the level of the machine language. -- SICP

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. –Booker T. Washington