Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. -- Mary Ellen Kelly

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -- Alan Kay

If there is a will, there is a way. -- unknown

That is the inevitable human response. We’re reluctant to believe that great discoveries are in the air. We want to believe that great discoveries are in our heads—and to each party in the multiple the presence of the other party is invariably cause for suspicion. -- Malcolm Gladwell, Who says big ideas are rare?

A hacker on a roll may be able to produce–in a period of a few months–something that a small development group (say, 7-8 people) would have a hard time getting together over a year. IBM used to report that certain programmers might be as much as 100 times as productive as other workers, or more. -- Peter Seebach

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. ~Henry Kravis

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. –Anais Nin

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ~Swami Vivekananda