It is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. -- Edsger Dijkstra

It's no trick for talented people to be interesting, but it's a gift to be interested. We want an organization filled with interested people. -- Randy S. Nelson (dean of Pixar University)

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

All creativity is an extended form of a joke. -- Alan Kay

Are you willing to wear your white belt? -- George Leonard, Mastery.

To do something well you have to love it. So to the extent you can preserve hacking as something you love, you're likely to do it well. Try to keep the sense of wonder you had about programming at age 14. If you're worried that your current job is rotting your brain, it probably is. -- Paul Graham.

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

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out. ~Robert Collier

If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got. ~Anonymous

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. ~David Brinkley