Have you ever noticed that when you sit down to write something, half the ideas that end up in it are ones you thought of while writing it? The same thing happens with software. Working to implement one idea gives you more ideas. -- Paul Graham, The other road ahead.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. -- Lao­Tzu

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

Sound methodology can empower and liberate the creative mind; it cannot inflame or inspire the drudge. -- Frederick P. Brooks, No Sliver Bullet.

What we choose to fight is so tiny! What fights us is so great! ... When we win it's with small things, and the triumph itself makes us small. ... Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings. -- Rainer Maria Rilke, The Man Watching.

The job of a leader today is not to create followers. It’s to create more leaders. -- Ralph Nader

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. –Unknown

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out. ~Robert Collier

When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you. ~Lolly Daskal

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it. ~Washington Irving