Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case. -- Francis Glassborow

Do you want to sell sugared water all your life or do you want to change the world? -- Steve Jobs, to John Sculley (former Pepsi executive)

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

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

It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. -- Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper

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

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. –Abigail Van Buren

If you’re going through hell keep going. ~Winston Churchill

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt