Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Goethe

Omit needless words. -- William Strunk, Jr. (The Elements of Style)

It was Edison who said ‘1% inspiration, 99% perspiration’. That may have been true a hundred years ago. These days it's ‘0.01% inspiration, 99.99% perspiration’, and the inspiration is the easy part. -- Linux Torvalds

A hacker on a roll may be able to produce–in a period of a few months–something that a small development group (say, 7-8 people) would have a hard time getting together over a year. IBM used to report that certain programmers might be as much as 100 times as productive as other workers, or more. -- Peter Seebach

Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. -- Alan J. Perlis

Processors don't get better so that they can have more free time. Processors get better so _you_ can have more free time. -- LeCamarade (freeshells.ch)

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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

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. –Sheryl Sandberg

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. –Abigail Van Buren