A person won't retain proficiency at a task unless he or she has at one time learned to perform that task very rapidly. Learning research demonstrates that the skills of people who become accurate but not fast deteriorate much sooner than the skills of people who become both accurate and fast. -- Philip Greenspun

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programmi ng)

1 - Creativity and innovation always build on the past. 2 - The past always tries to control the creativity that builds on it. 3 - Free societies enable the future by limiting the past. 4 - Ours is less and less a free society. -- Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture.

Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. -- Alan J. Perlis

So the mere constraint of staying in regular contact with us will push you to make things happen, because otherwise you'll be embarrassed to tell us that you haven't done anything new since the last time we talked. -- Paul Graham (a talk at Y Combinator, for startup creators).

All great things require great dedication. -- Chuck Norris(?)

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ~Lolly Daskal

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ~Ralph Nader

Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. – Ancient Indian Proverb