Have you ever noticed that when you sit down to write something, half the ideas that end up in it are ones you thought of while writing it? The same thing happens with software. Working to implement one idea gives you more ideas. -- Paul Graham, The other road ahead.

Luck is where preparation meets opportunity. -- Randy Pausch

Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act — if you can’t control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word. -- Nassim Taleb

Always dive down into a problem and get your hands on the deepest issue behind the problem. All other considerations are to dismissed as "engineering details"; they can be sorted out after the basic problem has been solved. -- Chris Crawford

We are the sum of our behaviours; excellence therefore is not an act but a habit. -- Aristotle.

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. -- Mario Andretti

Do one thing every day that scares you. ~Anonymous

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria Steinem

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. –Beverly Sills

It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. –Mae Jemison