The wonderful and frustrating thing about understanding yourself is that nobody can do it for you. -- BetterExplained.com
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
Being a programmer is the same way. The only way to be a good programmer is to write code. When you realize you haven't been writing much code lately, and it seems like all you do is brag about code you wrote in the past, and people start looking at you funny while you're shooting your mouth off, realize it's because they know. They might not even know they know, but they know. So, yes, doing what you love brings success, and by all means, throw yourself a nice big party, buy yourself a nice car, soak up the adulation of an adoring crowd. Then shut the fuck up and get back to work. -- Sincerity Theory
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. -- Dr. Seuss
J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence. -- Anatole France
Never do the impossible. People will expect you to do it forever after. -- pigsandfishes.com
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. –Joshua J. Marine
An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. ~Steve Jobs
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absense of fear. ~Mark Twain