Its a shame that the students of our generation grew up with windows and mice because that tainted our mindset not to think in terms of powerful tools. Some of us are just so tainted that we will never recover. -- Jeffrey Mark Siskind in comp.lang.lisp

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. -- Arthur C. Clarke

Opportunities that present themselves to you are the consequence -- at least partially -- of being in the right place at the right time. They tend to present themselves when you're not expecting it -- and often when you are engaged in other activities that would seem to preclude you from pursuing them. And they come and go quickly -- if you don't jump all over an opportunity, someone else generally will and it will vanish. -- Marc Andreessen (http://blog.pmarca.com/)

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programmi ng)

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

Simplicity takes effort-- genius, even. -- Paul Graham

Do one thing every day that scares you. ~Anonymous

Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it. ~Anonymous

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. ~Anonymous

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. –Robert Frost