It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. -- Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper

Work as intensely as you play and play as intensely as you work. -- Eric S. Raymond, How To Be A Hacker

What we choose to fight is so tiny! What fights us is so great! ... When we win it's with small things, and the triumph itself makes us small. ... Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings. -- Rainer Maria Rilke, The Man Watching.

The programmer must seek both perfection of part and adequacy of collection. -- Alan J. Perlis

Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning. -- Rich Cook

Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OSes is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders. -- Alanna

Fortune sides with him who dares. ~Virgil

Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy. ~Anonymous

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. –Anne Frank

If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you! ~T. Harv Eker