No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it. -- Alberti

My dream is that people adopt it on its own merits. We're not trying to bend Ruby on Rails to fit the enterprise, we're encouraging enterprises to bend to Ruby on Rails. Come if you like it, stay away if you don't. We're not going head over heels to accommodate the enterprise or to lure them away from Java. That's how you end up with Java, if you start bending to special interest groups. -- David Heinemeier Hansson (Ruby On Rails' creator)

The lesson of the story might appear to be that self-interested and ambitious people in power are often the cause of wastefulness in developing countries. But self-interested and ambitious people are in positions of power, great and small, all over the world. In many places, they are restrained by the law, the press, and democratic opposition. Cameroon's tragedy is that there is nothing to hold self-interest in check. -- Tim Harford

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

Good work is no done by ‘humble’ men. -- H. Hardy, A mathematician's apology.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. -- Benjamin Franklin

If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents- start charging for it. ~Kim Garst

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. –Henry David Thoreau

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

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