Pay attention to opportunity cost at all times. Doing one thing means not doing other things. This is a form of risk that is very easy to ignore, to your detriment. -- Marc Andreessen (http://blog.pmarca.com/)

Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning. -- Rich Cook

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. -- Anonymous

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made. -- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

Lisp is a programmable programming language. -- John Foderaro

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone. ~Michael John Bobak

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. ~Mark Caine