Luck is where preparation meets opportunity. -- Randy Pausch

It is better to be quiet and thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. -- WikiHow

You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery and you create a feeling of strength in reserve. -- Pablo Picasso

The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability. -- Randall E. Stross

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex, intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple, stupid behavior. -- Dee Hock, Birth of the Chaordic Age

Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning. -- Rich Cook

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein

If you’re going through hell keep going. ~Winston Churchill

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. ~Mark Caine