A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing. -- Alan Perlis

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain

Humans aren't rational -- they rationalize. And I don't just mean "some of them" or "other people". I'm talking about everyone. We have a "logic engine" in our brains, but for the most part, it's not the one in the driver's seat -- instead it operates after the fact, generating rationalizations and excuses for our behavior. -- Paul Buchheit

The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out. -- Donald Norman

In theory, there’s no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is. -- Albert Einstein

Premature abstraction is an equally grevious sin as premature optimization. -- Keith Devens

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. –Erma Bombeck

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear. –Rosa Parks

The starting point of all achievement is desire. ~Napolean Hill