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).

Luck is where preparation meets opportunity. -- Randy Pausch

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

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)

What is truth? -- Pontius Pilate

Premature abstraction is an equally grevious sin as premature optimization. -- Keith Devens

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

We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. ~Bill Gates

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. ~Thomas Jefferson