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

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them. -- Alan Perlis

Simplicity takes effort-- genius, even. -- Paul Graham

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -- Benjamin Franklin

First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack. -- George Carrette

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

We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret. ~Earl Nightingale

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus