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

Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case. -- Francis Glassborow

We really have to get over the idea that some stuff is just worth knowing even if you never do anything with it. Human memories happily erase stuff that has no purpose, so why try to fill up children's heads with such stuff? -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

This challenge, viz. the confrontation with the programming task, is so unique that this novel experience can teach us a lot about ourselves. It should deepen our understanding of the processes of design and creation, it should give us better control over the task of organizing our thoughts. If it did not do so, to my taste we should no deserve the computer at all! It has allready taught us a few lessons, and the one I have chosen to stress in this talk is the following. We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremenduous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsec limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers. -- E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer

Opportunities that present themselves to you are the consequence -- at least partially -- of being in the right place at the right time. They tend to present themselves when you're not expecting it -- and often when you are engaged in other activities that would seem to preclude you from pursuing them. And they come and go quickly -- if you don't jump all over an opportunity, someone else generally will and it will vanish. -- Marc Andreessen (http://blog.pmarca.com/)

C’s great for what it’s great for. -- Ben Hoyts (micropledge)

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. –Anais Nin

The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place. ~Guy Kawasaki

Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. ~Robert Kiyosaki

We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret. ~Earl Nightingale