Argue with idiots, and you become an idiot. If you compete with slaves you become a slave. -- Paul Graham and Norbert Weiner, respectively

Talkers are no good doers. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. -- Ferris Bueller

Have you ever noticed that when you sit down to write something, half the ideas that end up in it are ones you thought of while writing it? The same thing happens with software. Working to implement one idea gives you more ideas. -- Paul Graham, The other road ahead.

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

Abstraction is a form of data compression: absolutely necessary, because human short-term memory is so small, but the critically important aspect of abstraction is the algorithm that gets you from the name back to the "uncompressed" details. -- Bruce Wilder (blog post comment)

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. ~Bill Gates

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

Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. ~Robert Kiyosaki

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.~ Anatole France