Only make new mistakes. -- Phil Dourado

Quality of the people is better than the quality of the business idea. Crappy people can screw up the best idea in the world. -- Hadi Partovi & Ali Partovi (iLike.com), Talk at StartupSchool2007

C and Lisp stand at opposite ends of the spectrum; they're each great at what the other one sucks at. -- Steve Yegge, Tour de Babel.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain

You can have premature generalization as well as premature optimization. -- Bjarne Stroustrup

More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity. -- W.A. Wulf

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. –Florence Nightingale

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

If you can dream it, you can achieve it. –Zig Ziglar