The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. -- Bertrand Russell

Work as intensely as you play and play as intensely as you work. -- Eric S. Raymond, How To Be A Hacker

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. -- Thomas Jefferson

The lesson of the story might appear to be that self-interested and ambitious people in power are often the cause of wastefulness in developing countries. But self-interested and ambitious people are in positions of power, great and small, all over the world. In many places, they are restrained by the law, the press, and democratic opposition. Cameroon's tragedy is that there is nothing to hold self-interest in check. -- Tim Harford

A hacker on a roll may be able to produce–in a period of a few months–something that a small development group (say, 7-8 people) would have a hard time getting together over a year. IBM used to report that certain programmers might be as much as 100 times as productive as other workers, or more. -- Peter Seebach

Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. -- Thomas Edison

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to doDon’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. ~Jim Rohn

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. –Michael Jordan

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb

Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem. ~Anonymous