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

Opportunities that present themselves to you are the consequence -- at least partially -- of being in the right place at the right time. They tend to present themselves when you're not expecting it -- and often when you are engaged in other activities that would seem to preclude you from pursuing them. And they come and go quickly -- if you don't jump all over an opportunity, someone else generally will and it will vanish. -- Marc Andreessen (http://blog.pmarca.com/)

Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts. -- Edsger Dijkstra, CACM, 15:10

Seize any opportunity, or anything that looks like opportunity. They are rare, much rarer than you think... -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, "The Black Swan".

The job of a leader today is not to create followers. It’s to create more leaders. -- Ralph Nader

XML wasn't designed to be edited by humans on a regular basis. -- Guido van Rossum

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

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ~Pablo Picasso

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ~Swami Vivekananda

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~Eleanor Roosevelt