Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -- Alan Kay

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).

Photography is painting with light. -- Eric Hamilton

In general, we can think of data as defined by some collection of selectors and constructors, together with specified conditions that these procedures must fulfill in order to be a valid representation. -- SICP, What is meant by data?

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

To follow the path: look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master. -- Modern zen Poem

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing. ~Martha Stewart

If you can dream it, you can achieve it. –Zig Ziglar

Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ~John R. Wooden