Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. -- Philip Greenspun (Greenspun's Tenth Rule)

Since programmers create programs out of nothing, imagination is our only limitation. Thus, in the world of programming, the hero is the one who has great vision. Paul Graham is one of our contemporary heroes. He has the ability to embrace the vision, and to express it plainly. His works are my favorites, especially the ones describing language design. He explains secrets of programming, languages, and human nature that can only be learned from the hacker experience. This book shows you his great vision, and tells you the truth about the nature of hacking. -- Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, creator of Ruby

Luck is where preparation meets opportunity. -- Randy Pausch

Good coders code, great reuse. -- http://www.catonmat.net

The president was visiting NASA headquarters and stopped to talk to a man who was holding a mop. “And what do you do?” he asked. The man, a janitor, replied, “I’m helping to put a man on the moon, sir.” -- The little book of leadership

Simple things should be simple. Complex things should be possible. -- Alan Kay

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. –Vincent Van Gogh

The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place. ~Guy Kawasaki

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –Marie Curie

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it. ~Henry Ford