If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as *lines produced* but as *lines spent*. -- Edsger Dijkstra

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/)

In terms of energy, it's better to make a wrong choice than none at all. -- George Leonard, Mastery.

Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. -- Philip Greenspun (Greenspun's Tenth Rule)

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

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. -- C.S. Lewis

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. –Sheryl Sandberg

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus

You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. –Unknown

If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got. ~Anonymous