Quality of the people is better than the quality of the business idea. Crappy people can screw up the best idea in the world. -- Hadi Partovi & Ali Partovi (iLike.com), Talk at StartupSchool2007

Never do the impossible. People will expect you to do it forever after. -- pigsandfishes.com

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines produced but as lines spent. -- Edsger Dijkstra

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

State is the root of all evil. In particular functions with side effects should be avoided. -- OO Sucks (bluetail.com)

More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity. -- W.A. Wulf

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. ~Thomas A. Edison

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. –Booker T. Washington

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

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ~Ralph Nader