Chance favors the prepared mind. -- Louis Pasteur

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise. -- Edsger Dijkstra

Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. -- Eagleson’s Law

PI seconds is a nanocentury. -- [fact]

Workers of the world, the chains that bind you are not held in place by a ruling class, a "superior" race, by society, the state, or a leader. They are held in place by none other than yourself. Those who seek to exploit are not themselves free, for they place no value in freedom. Who is it that really employs you and commands you to pick up your daily load? And who is it that you allow to pass judgment on the adequacy of your toil? Who have you empowered to dangle the carrot before you and threaten with disapproval? Who, when you wake each morning, sends you off to what you call your work? Is there an "I want to" behind all your "I have to," or have you been so long forgotten to yourself that "I want" exists only as an idea in your head? If you have disconnected from your soul's desire and are drowning in an ocean of "have to," then rise up and overthrow your master. Begin the journey toward emancipation. Work only in such a way that you are truly self-employed. -- Tim Gallwey, The inner game of work

A little learning is a dangerous thing. -- Alexander Pope

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

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them. ~Vaibhav Shah

The best revenge is massive success. –Frank Sinatra

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. ~Mark Twain