Omit needless words. -- William Strunk, Jr. (The Elements of Style)

Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it ain't fun -- it's entertainment. -- David Mamet (as relayed by Joss Whedon)

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.

In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume that it is true and try to find out what it could be true of. -- George Miller

Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot. -- Eric S. Raymond

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. -- Alfred North Whitehead (Introduction to Mathematics)

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

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing. ~Martha Stewart

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown

14.Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. –Mark Twain