I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay

Always dive down into a problem and get your hands on the deepest issue behind the problem. All other considerations are to dismissed as "engineering details"; they can be sorted out after the basic problem has been solved. -- Chris Crawford

Remember, always be yourself ... unless you suck! -- Joss Whedon

Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. -- Eagleson’s Law

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -- Sherlock Holmes

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/)

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. ~Truman Capote

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. –Leonardo da Vinci

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. ~Diane Ackerman

Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem. ~Anonymous