I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -- Galileo Galilei

We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection. It's about a process, a journey. The master is the one who stays on the path day after day, year after year. The master is the one who is willing to try, and fail, and try again, for as long as he or she lives. -- George Leonard, Mastery.

Work as intensely as you play and play as intensely as you work. -- Eric S. Raymond, How To Be A Hacker

Chance favors the prepared mind. -- Louis Pasteur

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline. -- Bill Clinton

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

If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission. ~Anonymous

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out. ~Robert Collier

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. –Mae Jemison