Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (attributed)

[Innovation] comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important. -- Steve Jobs

Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder. -- Erik Naggum

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. -- Ferris Bueller

Functional programming is to algorithms as the ubiquitous little black dress is to women's fashion. -- Mark Tarver (of "The bipolar Lisp programmer" fame)

Abstraction is a form of data compression: absolutely necessary, because human short-term memory is so small, but the critically important aspect of abstraction is the algorithm that gets you from the name back to the "uncompressed" details. -- Bruce Wilder (blog post comment)

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out. ~Robert Collier

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. ~George Lorimer

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