There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Ken Olson, President, Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. -- Cicero
Getting back to failing early, I've learned it's important to completely fail. Get fired. Shoot the project, then burn its corpse. Melt the CVS repository and microwave the backup CDs. When things go wrong, I've often tried to play the hero from start to finish. Guess what? Some projects are doomed no matter what. Some need skills I don't possess. And some need a fresh face. -- Reginald Braithwaite
To do something well you have to love it. So to the extent you can preserve hacking as something you love, you're likely to do it well. Try to keep the sense of wonder you had about programming at age 14. If you're worried that your current job is rotting your brain, it probably is. -- Paul Graham.
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
Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. -- Eagleson’s Law
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.~ Oscar Wilde
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso
Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. ~Francis Chan
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. –Erma Bombeck