The president was visiting NASA headquarters and stopped to talk to a man who was holding a mop. “And what do you do?” he asked. The man, a janitor, replied, “I’m helping to put a man on the moon, sir.” -- The little book of leadership

The wonderful and frustrating thing about understanding yourself is that nobody can do it for you. -- BetterExplained.com

C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce. -- Scott McKay

For complex systems, the compiler and development environment need to be in the same language that its supporting. It's the only way to grow code. -- Alan Kay

Linux is only free if your time has no value. -- Jamie Zawinski

The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made. -- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

Do one thing every day that scares you. ~Anonymous

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

We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe