To follow the path: look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master. -- Modern zen Poem

Pay attention to opportunity cost at all times. Doing one thing means not doing other things. This is a form of risk that is very easy to ignore, to your detriment. -- Marc Andreessen (http://blog.pmarca.com/)

You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right. -- Richard Feynman

Have you ever noticed that when you sit down to write something, half the ideas that end up in it are ones you thought of while writing it? The same thing happens with software. Working to implement one idea gives you more ideas. -- Paul Graham, The other road ahead.

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. -- Eric Raymond

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. -- Official definition of "duck typing"

You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. –Unknown

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors. ~Napoleon Hill

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus