Argue with idiots, and you become an idiot. If you compete with slaves you become a slave. -- Paul Graham and Norbert Weiner, respectively

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. -- Mark Twain

I think that a lot of programmers are ignoring an important point when people talk about reducing code repetition on large projects. Part of the idea is that large projects are intrinsically *wrong*. That you should be looking at making a number of smaller projects that are composable, even if you never end up reusing one of those smaller projects elsewhere. -- Dan Nugent

Just like carpentry, measure twice cut once. -- Super-sizing YouTube with Python (Mike Solomon, [email protected])

I’d rather write programs to write programs than write programs. -- Richard Sites

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. -- Anonymous

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

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. –Dalai Lama

We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale

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