Seize any opportunity, or anything that looks like opportunity. They are rare, much rarer than you think... -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, "The Black Swan".

It(mastering)’s knowing what you are doing. -- Joesgoals.com

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -- Benjamin Franklin

Acknowledging the negative doesn't mean sniveling [whining, complaining]; it means facing the truth and then moving on. -- George Leonard, Mastery.

Abstraction is a form of data compression: absolutely necessary, because human short-term memory is so small, but the critically important aspect of abstraction is the algorithm that gets you from the name back to the "uncompressed" details. -- Bruce Wilder (blog post comment)

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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou

Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy. ~Anonymous