J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence. -- Anatole France

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. -- Colin Powell

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)

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

This challenge, viz. the confrontation with the programming task, is so unique that this novel experience can teach us a lot about ourselves. It should deepen our understanding of the processes of design and creation, it should give us better control over the task of organizing our thoughts. If it did not do so, to my taste we should no deserve the computer at all! It has allready taught us a few lessons, and the one I have chosen to stress in this talk is the following. We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremenduous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsec limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers. -- E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer

Give up control. You never really had it anyway. -- How to fail: 25 secrets learned through failure

Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself--the invisible battles inside all of us--that's where it's at. –Jesse Owens

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value. ~Albert Einstein

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~Anonymous