Do you want to sell sugared water all your life or do you want to change the world? -- Steve Jobs, to John Sculley (former Pepsi executive)

Write it properly first. It's easier to make a correct program fast, than to make a fast program correct. -- http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/

A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longuer anything to add, but when there is no longuer anything to take away. -- Antoine de St Exupery.

So the mere constraint of staying in regular contact with us will push you to make things happen, because otherwise you'll be embarrassed to tell us that you haven't done anything new since the last time we talked. -- Paul Graham (a talk at Y Combinator, for startup creators).

If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. -- Robert Sewell

Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable. -- Ralph Johnson

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. ~Bruce Lee

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. –Sheryl Sandberg

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absense of fear. ~Mark Twain

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt