Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. -- William Strunk, Jr. (The Elements of Style)

Write it properly first. It's easier to make a correct program fast, than to make a fast program correct. -- http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -- Thomas Edison

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

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. -- Winston Churchill

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for. -- Greek philosopher Epicurus

Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it. ~Anonymous

Wake up to the day's most important news.

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria Steinem

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