An expert is, according to my working definition "someone who doesn't need to look up answers to easy questions". -- Eric Lippert.

Good coders code, great reuse. -- http://www.catonmat.net

Opportunities that present themselves to you are the consequence -- at least partially -- of being in the right place at the right time. They tend to present themselves when you're not expecting it -- and often when you are engaged in other activities that would seem to preclude you from pursuing them. And they come and go quickly -- if you don't jump all over an opportunity, someone else generally will and it will vanish. -- Marc Andreessen (http://blog.pmarca.com/)

C and Lisp stand at opposite ends of the spectrum; they're each great at what the other one sucks at. -- Steve Yegge, Tour de Babel.

Another feature about this guy is his low threshold of boredom. He'll pick up on a task and work frantically at it, accomplishing wonders in a short time and then get bored and drop it before its properly finished. He'll do nothing but strum his guitar and lie around in bed for several days after. Thats also part of the pattern too; periods of frenetic activity followed by periods of melancholia, withdrawal and inactivity. This is a bipolar personality. -- The bipolar lisp programmer

The only thing a man should ever be 100% convinced of is his own ignorance. -- DJ MacLean

Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. ~Dale Carnegie

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. –Sir Claus Moser

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle