Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

Omit needless words. -- William Strunk, Jr. (The Elements of Style)

Omit needless words. -- William Strunk, Jr. (The Elements of Style)

It was Edison who said ‘1% inspiration, 99% perspiration’. That may have been true a hundred years ago. These days it's ‘0.01% inspiration, 99.99% perspiration’, and the inspiration is the easy part. -- Linux Torvalds

Argue with idiots, and you become an idiot. If you compete with slaves you become a slave. -- Paul Graham and Norbert Weiner, respectively

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

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby

An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it. ~Henry Ford

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing. ~Martha Stewart