And if you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all. -- Joel Spolsky

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. -- Rush (Freewill)

You can’t get to version 500 if you don’t start with a version 1. -- BetterExplained.com

Workers of the world, the chains that bind you are not held in place by a ruling class, a "superior" race, by society, the state, or a leader. They are held in place by none other than yourself. Those who seek to exploit are not themselves free, for they place no value in freedom. Who is it that really employs you and commands you to pick up your daily load? And who is it that you allow to pass judgment on the adequacy of your toil? Who have you empowered to dangle the carrot before you and threaten with disapproval? Who, when you wake each morning, sends you off to what you call your work? Is there an "I want to" behind all your "I have to," or have you been so long forgotten to yourself that "I want" exists only as an idea in your head? If you have disconnected from your soul's desire and are drowning in an ocean of "have to," then rise up and overthrow your master. Begin the journey toward emancipation. Work only in such a way that you are truly self-employed. -- Tim Gallwey, The inner game of work

We are the sum of our behaviours; excellence therefore is not an act but a habit. -- Aristotle.

The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you get a round one. -- Douglas Crockford (Author of JSON and JsLint)

Fortune sides with him who dares. ~Virgil

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

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone

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