Quality of the people is better than the quality of the business idea. Crappy people can screw up the best idea in the world. -- Hadi Partovi & Ali Partovi (iLike.com), Talk at StartupSchool2007

Sound methodology can empower and liberate the creative mind; it cannot inflame or inspire the drudge. -- Frederick P. Brooks, No Sliver Bullet.

When you’ve got the code all ripped apart, it’s like a car that’s all disassembled. You’ve got all the parts tying all over your garage and you have to replace the broken part or the car will never run. It’s not fun until the code gets back to the baseline again. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not so sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein

A society that puts equality -- in the sense of equality of outcome -- ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests. -- Milton Friedman (Thomas Sowell: A Conflict of Visions, p130)

640K ought to be enough for anybody. -- Bill Gates, 1981

Teach thy tongue to say, I do not know, and thous shalt progress. –Maimonides

It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln

If you can dream it, you can achieve it. –Zig Ziglar

You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. –Unknown