Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. -- Earl of Chesterfield

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. -- Eagleson’s Law

That is the inevitable human response. We’re reluctant to believe that great discoveries are in the air. We want to believe that great discoveries are in our heads—and to each party in the multiple the presence of the other party is invariably cause for suspicion. -- Malcolm Gladwell, Who says big ideas are rare?

Functional programming is like describing your problem to a mathematician. Imperative programming is like giving instructions to an idiot. -- arcus, #scheme on Freenode

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

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all. ~Dale Carnegie

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. ~Anonymous

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. ~Colin R. Davis

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. –Sheryl Sandberg