Do you want to sell sugared water all your life or do you want to change the world? -- Steve Jobs, to John Sculley (former Pepsi executive)

Being a programmer is the same way. The only way to be a good programmer is to write code. When you realize you haven't been writing much code lately, and it seems like all you do is brag about code you wrote in the past, and people start looking at you funny while you're shooting your mouth off, realize it's because they know. They might not even know they know, but they know. So, yes, doing what you love brings success, and by all means, throw yourself a nice big party, buy yourself a nice car, soak up the adulation of an adoring crowd. Then shut the fuck up and get back to work. -- Sincerity Theory

We will never become a truly paper-less society until the Palm Pilot folks come out with WipeMe 1.0. -- Andy Pierson

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. -- George Burns

The Work Begins Anew, The Hope Rises Again, And The Dream Lives On. -- Ted Kennedy

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. –Robert Frost

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. ~Francis Chan

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. –Aristotle

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors. ~Napoleon Hill