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

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

For complex systems, the compiler and development environment need to be in the same language that its supporting. It's the only way to grow code. -- Alan Kay

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Cited by Randy Pausch

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. -- Frank Lloyd Wright

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. ~Thomas Jefferson

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. –Ann Landers

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato