Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. -- Colin Powell

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

I think that a lot of programmers are ignoring an important point when people talk about reducing code repetition on large projects. Part of the idea is that large projects are intrinsically *wrong*. That you should be looking at making a number of smaller projects that are composable, even if you never end up reusing one of those smaller projects elsewhere. -- Dan Nugent

Talkers are no good doers. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

In theory, there’s no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is. -- Albert Einstein

Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming. -- Donald Knuth

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

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it. ~Washington Irving

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. ~George Lorimer

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. –Confucius