When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. -- unknown

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 think it is wise, and only honest, to warn you that my goal is immodest. It is not my purpose to "transfer knowledge" to you that, subsequently, you can forget again. My purpose is no less than to effectuate in each of you a noticeable, irreversable change. I want you to gain, for the rest of your lives, the insight that beautiful proofs are not "found" by trial anf error but are the result of a consciously applied design discipline. I want you to raise your quality standards. I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me. -- E. W. Dijkstra

A person won't become proficient at something until he or she has done it many times. In other words., if you want someone to be really good at building a software system, he or she will have to have built 10 or more systems of that type. -- Philip Greenspun

No problem should ever have to be solved twice. -- Eric S. Raymond, How to become a hacker

Two people should stay together if together they are better people than they would be individually. -- ?

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. ~Truman Capote