The greatest of all weaknesses is the fear of appearing weak. -- J. B. Bossuet, Politics from Holy Writ, 1709

A hacker on a roll may be able to produce–in a period of a few months–something that a small development group (say, 7-8 people) would have a hard time getting together over a year. IBM used to report that certain programmers might be as much as 100 times as productive as other workers, or more. -- Peter Seebach

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. -- Thomas Jefferson

There is one meaning [for static in C]: a global variable that is invisible outside the current scope, be it a function or a file. -- Paolo Bonzini

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. -- Mark Twain

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise. -- Edsger Dijkstra

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ~Ralph Nader

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. –George Addair

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. –Booker T. Washington

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them. ~Vaibhav Shah