A person won't retain proficiency at a task unless he or she has at one time learned to perform that task very rapidly. Learning research demonstrates that the skills of people who become accurate but not fast deteriorate much sooner than the skills of people who become both accurate and fast. -- Philip Greenspun

Mistakes were made. -- Ronald Reagan

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. -- George Burns

Functional programming is like describing your problem to a mathematician. Imperative programming is like giving instructions to an idiot. -- arcus, #scheme on Freenode

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

Philosophy: the finding of bad reasons for what one believes by instinct. -- Brave New World (paraphrased)

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ~Pablo Picasso

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. ~Anonymous

The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place. ~Guy Kawasaki