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)

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

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

You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery and you create a feeling of strength in reserve. -- Pablo Picasso

First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack. -- George Carrette

There is one meaning [for static in C]: a global variable that is invisible outside the current scope, be it a function or a file. -- Paolo Bonzini

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

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. –Confucius

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon