If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough. -- Alan Kay

The wonderful and frustrating thing about understanding yourself is that nobody can do it for you. -- BetterExplained.com

I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay

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

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

PI seconds is a nanocentury. -- [fact]

Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life. ~Dr. APJ Kalam

If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got. ~Anonymous

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. ~Jane Smiley