I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. -- Thomas Jefferson

A person won't retain proficiency at a task unless he or she has at one time learned to perform that task very rapidly. Learning research demonstrates that the skills of people who become accurate but not fast deteriorate much sooner than the skills of people who become both accurate and fast. -- Philip Greenspun

Programming is the art of figuring out what you want so precisely that even a machine can do it. -- Some guy who isn't famous

I think the root of your mistake is saying that macros don't scale to larger groups. The real truth is that macros don't scale to stupider groups. -- Paul Graham, on the Lightweight Languages mailing list.

It is said that the real winner is the one who lives in today but able to see tomorrow. -- Juan Meng, Reviewing "The future of ideas" by Lawrence Lessig

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. ~Theodore N. Vail

The mind is everything. What you think you become. –Buddha

The starting point of all achievement is desire. ~Napolean Hill

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