Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programmi ng)

All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection. -- Butler Lampson

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

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

C’s great for what it’s great for. -- Ben Hoyts (micropledge)

Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. -- Eagleson’s Law

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

If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents- start charging for it. ~Kim Garst

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ~Jim Ryun

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. –Beverly Sills