When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. -- unknown

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/)

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. -- Rush (Freewill)

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. -- Alfred North Whitehead (Introduction to Mathematics)

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

Premature abstraction is an equally grevious sin as premature optimization. -- Keith Devens

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker

Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions. –Dalai Lama

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. ~Dale Carnegie

The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place. ~Guy Kawasaki