When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. -- unknown

To iterate is human, to recurse divine. -- L. Peter Deutsch

There are many ways to avoid success in life, but the most sure-fire just might be procrastination. -- Hara Estroff Marano.

All creativity is an extended form of a joke. -- Alan Kay

Since programmers create programs out of nothing, imagination is our only limitation. Thus, in the world of programming, the hero is the one who has great vision. Paul Graham is one of our contemporary heroes. He has the ability to embrace the vision, and to express it plainly. His works are my favorites, especially the ones describing language design. He explains secrets of programming, languages, and human nature that can only be learned from the hacker experience. This book shows you his great vision, and tells you the truth about the nature of hacking. -- Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, creator of Ruby

Sometimes a man with too broad a perspective reveals himself as having no real perspective at all. A man who tries too hard to see every side may be a man who is trying to avoid choosing any side. A man who tries too hard to seek a deeper truth may be trying to hide from the truth he already knows. That is not a sign of intellectual sophistication and "great thinking". It is a demonstration of moral degeneracy and cowardice. -- Steven Den Beste

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it. ~Washington Irving

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing. ~Martha Stewart

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. –Robert Frost