Only make new mistakes. -- Phil Dourado

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

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

What I didn't understand was that the value of some new acquisition wasn't the difference between its retail price and what I paid for it. It was the value I derived from it. Stuff is an extremely illiquid asset. Unless you have some plan for selling that valuable thing you got so cheaply, what difference does it make what it's "worth?" The only way you're ever going to extract any value from it is to use it. And if you don't have any immediate use for it, you probably never will. -- Paul Graham

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

I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. ~George Bernard Shaw

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. ~Truman Capote

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. –Leonardo da Vinci