Remember, always be yourself ... unless you suck! -- Joss Whedon

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. -- William Strunk, Jr. (The Elements of Style)

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -- Sherlock Holmes

Well, if you talk about programming to a group of programmers who use the same language, they can become almost evangelistic about the language. They form a tight-knit community, hold to certain beliefs, and follow certain rules in their programming. It’s like a church with a programming language for a Bible. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. -- Cicero

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -- Thomas Edison

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

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown

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