The best way to learn to live with our limitations is to know them. --E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer

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

When your enemy is making a very serious mistake, don't be impolite and disturb him. -- Napoleon Bonaparte (allegedly)

It is said that the real winner is the one who lives in today but able to see tomorrow. -- Juan Meng, Reviewing "The future of ideas" by Lawrence Lessig

I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay

Premature abstraction is an equally grevious sin as premature optimization. -- Keith Devens

Do one thing every day that scares you. ~Anonymous

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. –John Lennon

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. ~Audre Lorde