Remember: you are alone. Every time you can get help from someone, it is an opportunity: you should eagerly size it. But then, promptly return to normal mode: you are alone and you must be prepared to solve every problem yourself. -- Eric KEDJI

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. -- Edsger Dijkstra

Hire people smarter than you. Work with people smarter than you. Listen to them. Let them lead you. Take the blame for all failures, give away the credit for all successes. -- How to fail: 25 secrets learned through failure

I’d rather write programs to write programs than write programs. -- Richard Sites

If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough. -- Alan Kay

The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it [Leadership]. -- Dwight D. Enseinhover.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart

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

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it. ~Washington Irving

Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ~John R. Wooden