Courage is grace under pressure. -- Ernest Hemingway

One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs. -- Robert Firth

Attitude is no substitute for competence. -- Eric S. Raymond, How to become a hacker

Do not accept anything because it comes from the mouth of a respected person. -- Buddha

If I tell you I'm good, you would probably think I'm boasting. If I tell you I'm no good, you know I'm lying. -- Bruce Lee

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)

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. ~Francis Chan

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absense of fear. ~Mark Twain

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin