What is truth? -- Pontius Pilate

Getting back to failing early, I've learned it's important to completely fail. Get fired. Shoot the project, then burn its corpse. Melt the CVS repository and microwave the backup CDs. When things go wrong, I've often tried to play the hero from start to finish. Guess what? Some projects are doomed no matter what. Some need skills I don't possess. And some need a fresh face. -- Reginald Braithwaite

The direct pursuit of happiness is a recipe for an unhappy life. -- Donald Campbell

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

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. -- Dr. Seuss

Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts. -- Edsger Dijkstra, CACM, 15:10

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. ~Albert Einstein

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them. ~Denis Watiley

Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out. ~John Wooden