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

You will never become a Great Programmer until you acknowledge that you will always be a Terrible Programmer. You will remain a Great Programmer for only as long as you acknowledge that you are still a Terrible Programmer. -- Marc (http://kickin-the-darkness.blogspot.com/)

Mastering isn’t a survival instinct; it’s an urge to excel. Mastering is one of the experiences that delineates us from animals. It is striving to be more tomorrow than we are today; to perfectly pitch the ball over home plate; to craft the perfect sentence in an article; to open the oven and feel the warm, richly-scented cloud telling you dinner is going to be absolutely extraordinary. We humans crave perfection, to be masters of our domain, to distinguish ourselves by sheer skill and prowess. -- Joesgoals.com

Remember: you are alone. Every time you can get help from someone, it is an opportunity: you should eagerly size it. But then, promptly return to normal mode: you are alone and you must be prepared to solve every problem yourself. -- Eric KEDJI

Ce n’est que par les beaux sentiments qu’on parvient à la fortune ! -- Charles Baudelaire, Conseils aux jeunes littérateurs.

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. -- Martin Golding

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb

We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale

Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument. ~Anonymous

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them. ~Vaibhav Shah