Remember, always be yourself ... unless you suck! -- Joss Whedon

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. -- Edsger Dijkstra

Lisp is a programmable programming language. -- John Foderaro

La tactique, c'est ce que vous faites quand il y a quelque chose à faire; la stratégie, c'est ce que vous faites quand il n'y a rien à faire. -- Xavier Tartacover

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Cited by Randy Pausch

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

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing. ~Martha Stewart

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself--the invisible battles inside all of us--that's where it's at. –Jesse Owens

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out. ~Robert Collier

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. –Confucius