An expert is, according to my working definition "someone who doesn't need to look up answers to easy questions". -- Eric Lippert.

La haine est une liqueur précieuse, un poison plus cher que celui des Borgia, - car il est fait avec notre sang, notre santé, notre sommeil, et les deux tiers de notre amour! Il faut en être avare! -- Charles Baudelaire, Conseils aux jeunes littérateurs.

- If you give him a penny for his thoughts, you'd get change. - Not the sharpest knife in the drawer. - A prime candidate for natural deselection. -- [Ideas for flamewars]

Have you ever noticed that when you sit down to write something, half the ideas that end up in it are ones you thought of while writing it? The same thing happens with software. Working to implement one idea gives you more ideas. -- Paul Graham, The other road ahead.

If something isn’t working, you need to look back and figure out what got you excited in the first place. -- David Gorman (ImThere.com)

Are you willing to wear your white belt? -- George Leonard, Mastery.

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. –Unknown

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

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill

Life isn't about getting and having, it's about giving and being. –Kevin Kruse