Are you willing to wear your white belt? -- George Leonard, Mastery.

Only bad designers blame their failings on the users. -- unknown

Since programmers create programs out of nothing, imagination is our only limitation. Thus, in the world of programming, the hero is the one who has great vision. Paul Graham is one of our contemporary heroes. He has the ability to embrace the vision, and to express it plainly. His works are my favorites, especially the ones describing language design. He explains secrets of programming, languages, and human nature that can only be learned from the hacker experience. This book shows you his great vision, and tells you the truth about the nature of hacking. -- Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, creator of Ruby

The president was visiting NASA headquarters and stopped to talk to a man who was holding a mop. “And what do you do?” he asked. The man, a janitor, replied, “I’m helping to put a man on the moon, sir.” -- The little book of leadership

Revolutions come from standing on the shoulders of giants and facing in a better direction. -- Alan Kay

So the mere constraint of staying in regular contact with us will push you to make things happen, because otherwise you'll be embarrassed to tell us that you haven't done anything new since the last time we talked. -- Paul Graham (a talk at Y Combinator, for startup creators).

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ~Pablo Picasso

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. –Booker T. Washington

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. –Ann Landers