Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -- Mark Twain

And if you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all. -- Joel Spolsky

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

A no uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a yes merely uttered to please or what is worse, to avoid trouble. -- Mahatma Gandhi

To iterate is human, to recurse divine. -- L. Peter Deutsch

Programming is the art of figuring out what you want so precisely that even a machine can do it. -- Some guy who isn't famous

If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient. ~Gurbaksh Chahal

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby

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

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb