Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them. -- Alan Perlis

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline. -- Bill Clinton

Normality is the route to nowhere. -- Ridderstrale & Nordstorm, Funky Business

The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it [Leadership]. -- Dwight D. Enseinhover.

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.

What I didn't understand was that the value of some new acquisition wasn't the difference between its retail price and what I paid for it. It was the value I derived from it. Stuff is an extremely illiquid asset. Unless you have some plan for selling that valuable thing you got so cheaply, what difference does it make what it's "worth?" The only way you're ever going to extract any value from it is to use it. And if you don't have any immediate use for it, you probably never will. -- Paul Graham

To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like. ~Mike Gafka

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart

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

Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions. –Dalai Lama