Remember that you are humans in the first place and only after that programmers. -- Alexandru Vancea

The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit. -- Anonymous

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

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. -- Colin Powell

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Goethe

A society that puts equality -- in the sense of equality of outcome -- ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests. -- Milton Friedman (Thomas Sowell: A Conflict of Visions, p130)

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. ~Thomas A. Edison

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ~Swami Vivekananda

Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them. ~Anonymous

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ~Pablo Picasso