Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. -- Bill Gates

It's no trick for talented people to be interesting, but it's a gift to be interested. We want an organization filled with interested people. -- Randy S. Nelson (dean of Pixar University)

I feel it is everybodies obligation to reach for the best in themselves and use that for the interest of mankind. -- Corneluis (comment on 'Are you going to change the world? (Really?)')

Sound methodology can empower and liberate the creative mind; it cannot inflame or inspire the drudge. -- Frederick P. Brooks, No Sliver Bullet.

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).

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

I would rather die of passion than of boredom. –Vincent van Gogh

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all. ~Dale Carnegie

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone. ~Michael John Bobak

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