Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free. -- Linus Torvalds

That is the inevitable human response. We’re reluctant to believe that great discoveries are in the air. We want to believe that great discoveries are in our heads—and to each party in the multiple the presence of the other party is invariably cause for suspicion. -- Malcolm Gladwell, Who says big ideas are rare?

You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery and you create a feeling of strength in reserve. -- Pablo Picasso

La tactique, c'est ce que vous faites quand il y a quelque chose à faire; la stratégie, c'est ce que vous faites quand il n'y a rien à faire. -- Xavier Tartacover

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. -- C.S. Lewis

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -- Sherlock Holmes

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. –Unknown

Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain. ~Anonymous

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –Marie Curie

You can do anything, but not everything. ~Anonymous