If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough. -- Alan Kay

Mistakes were made. -- Ronald Reagan

What I didn't understand was that the value of some new acquisition wasn't the difference between its retail price and what I paid for it. It was the value I derived from it. Stuff is an extremely illiquid asset. Unless you have some plan for selling that valuable thing you got so cheaply, what difference does it make what it's "worth?" The only way you're ever going to extract any value from it is to use it. And if you don't have any immediate use for it, you probably never will. -- Paul Graham

A no uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a yes merely uttered to please or what is worse, to avoid trouble. -- Mahatma Gandhi

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

The president was visiting NASA headquarters and stopped to talk to a man who was holding a mop. “And what do you do?” he asked. The man, a janitor, replied, “I’m helping to put a man on the moon, sir.” -- The little book of leadership

Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. – Ancient Indian Proverb

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. –Dalai Lama

Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan