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

A person won't retain proficiency at a task unless he or she has at one time learned to perform that task very rapidly. Learning research demonstrates that the skills of people who become accurate but not fast deteriorate much sooner than the skills of people who become both accurate and fast. -- Philip Greenspun

Functional programming is to algorithms as the ubiquitous little black dress is to women's fashion. -- Mark Tarver (of "The bipolar Lisp programmer" fame)

Actually, the essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes. -- George Leonard, Mastery.

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines produced but as lines spent. -- Edsger Dijkstra

There are many ways to avoid success in life, but the most sure-fire just might be procrastination. -- Hara Estroff Marano.

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them. ~Denis Watiley

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. ~Steve Jobs

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough. –Oprah Winfrey

If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient. ~Gurbaksh Chahal