La tactique, c'est ce que vous faites quand il y a quelque chose à faire; la stratégie, c'est ce que vous faites quand il n'y a rien à faire. -- Xavier Tartacover

A person won't become proficient at something until he or she has done it many times. In other words., if you want someone to be really good at building a software system, he or she will have to have built 10 or more systems of that type. -- Philip Greenspun

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex, intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple, stupid behavior. -- Dee Hock, Birth of the Chaordic Age

Never do the impossible. People will expect you to do it forever after. -- pigsandfishes.com

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

Hire people smarter than you. Work with people smarter than you. Listen to them. Let them lead you. Take the blame for all failures, give away the credit for all successes. -- How to fail: 25 secrets learned through failure

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. –Ann Landers

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone. ~Michael John Bobak

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus