It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. -- Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper

Being a programmer is the same way. The only way to be a good programmer is to write code. When you realize you haven't been writing much code lately, and it seems like all you do is brag about code you wrote in the past, and people start looking at you funny while you're shooting your mouth off, realize it's because they know. They might not even know they know, but they know. So, yes, doing what you love brings success, and by all means, throw yourself a nice big party, buy yourself a nice car, soak up the adulation of an adoring crowd. Then shut the fuck up and get back to work. -- Sincerity Theory

A guideline in the process of stepwise refinement should be the principle to decompose decisions as much as possible, to untangle aspects which are only seemingly interdependent, and to defer those decisions which concern details of representation as long as possible. -- Niklaus Wirth

C++ is like teenage sex: Everybody is talking about it all the time, only few are really doing it. -- unknown

The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it [Leadership]. -- Dwight D. Enseinhover.

Always dive down into a problem and get your hands on the deepest issue behind the problem. All other considerations are to dismissed as "engineering details"; they can be sorted out after the basic problem has been solved. -- Chris Crawford

Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. ~Robert Kiyosaki

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

Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument. ~Anonymous

The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place. ~Guy Kawasaki