The most damaging phrase in the language is, It's always been done that way. -- Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (attributed)

I’d rather write programs to write programs than write programs. -- Richard Sites

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. -- Martin Golding

And if you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all. -- Joel Spolsky

It is better to be quiet and thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. -- WikiHow

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. –Beverly Sills

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing - that’s why we recommend it daily. ~Zig Ziglar

Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ~John R. Wooden