Revolutions come from standing on the shoulders of giants and facing in a better direction. -- Alan Kay

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. -- Rush (Freewill)

The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you get a round one. -- Douglas Crockford (Author of JSON and JsLint)

Sound methodology can empower and liberate the creative mind; it cannot inflame or inspire the drudge. -- Frederick P. Brooks, No Sliver Bullet.

The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made. -- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. -- Larry Wall (Programming Perl)

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

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein

It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. –Mae Jemison