Programming is the art of figuring out what you want so precisely that even a machine can do it. -- Some guy who isn't famous

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them. -- Alan Perlis

We tend to seek easy, single-factor explanations of success. For most important things, though, success actually requires avoiding many separate causes of failure. -- Jared Diamond

The wonderful and frustrating thing about understanding yourself is that nobody can do it for you. -- BetterExplained.com

I think the root of your mistake is saying that macros don't scale to larger groups. The real truth is that macros don't scale to stupider groups. -- Paul Graham, on the Lightweight Languages mailing list.

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/)

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth

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

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. ~Dale Carnegie

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –Marie Curie