It is better to be quiet and thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. -- WikiHow

It was Edison who said ‘1% inspiration, 99% perspiration’. That may have been true a hundred years ago. These days it's ‘0.01% inspiration, 99.99% perspiration’, and the inspiration is the easy part. -- Linux Torvalds

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. -- Thomas Jefferson

Hence my urgent advice to all of you to reject the morals of the bestseller society and to find, to start with, your reward in your own fun. This is quite feasible, for the challenge of simplification is so fascinating that, if we do our job properly, we shall have the greatest fun in the world. -- E. W. Dijkstra, On the nature of computing science.

Photography is painting with light. -- Eric Hamilton

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. -- William Strunk, Jr. (The Elements of Style)

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. –Unknown

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all. ~Dale Carnegie

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato