Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -- Thomas Edison

You think you know when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. -- Bill Gates

We are the sum of our behaviours; excellence therefore is not an act but a habit. -- Aristotle.

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

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. –Steve Jobs

We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret. ~Earl Nightingale

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ~Swami Vivekananda

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work. ~Thomas J. Watson