Good ideas are out there for anyone with the wit and the will to find them. -- Malcolm Gladwell, Who says big ideas are rare?

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. -- Brian Kernigan

Do you want to sell sugared water all your life or do you want to change the world? -- Steve Jobs, to John Sculley (former Pepsi executive)

I had to learn how to teach less, so that more could be learned. -- Tim Gallwey, The inner game of work

My dream is that people adopt it on its own merits. We're not trying to bend Ruby on Rails to fit the enterprise, we're encouraging enterprises to bend to Ruby on Rails. Come if you like it, stay away if you don't. We're not going head over heels to accommodate the enterprise or to lure them away from Java. That's how you end up with Java, if you start bending to special interest groups. -- David Heinemeier Hansson (Ruby On Rails' creator)

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. ~Colin R. Davis

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

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. ~Jane Smiley

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. –Joshua J. Marine