Seize any opportunity, or anything that looks like opportunity. They are rare, much rarer than you think... -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, "The Black Swan".

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. -- Lao­Tzu

[Innovation] comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important. -- Steve Jobs

In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume that it is true and try to find out what it could be true of. -- George Miller

State is the root of all evil. In particular functions with side effects should be avoided. -- OO Sucks (bluetail.com)

The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made. -- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. –Anais Nin

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. –Roger Staubach

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus