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

Luck is where preparation meets opportunity. -- Randy Pausch

State is the root of all evil. In particular functions with side effects should be avoided. -- OO Sucks (bluetail.com)

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. -- Winston Churchill

Revolutions come from standing on the shoulders of giants and facing in a better direction. -- Alan Kay

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. -- Alfred North Whitehead (Introduction to Mathematics)

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. ~Steve Jobs

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing. ~Martha Stewart

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself--the invisible battles inside all of us--that's where it's at. –Jesse Owens

Do one thing every day that scares you. ~Anonymous