The choice of the university is mostly important for the piece of paper you get at the end. The education you get depends on you. -- Andreas Zwinkau

Work as intensely as you play and play as intensely as you work. -- Eric S. Raymond, How To Be A Hacker

Getting back to failing early, I've learned it's important to completely fail. Get fired. Shoot the project, then burn its corpse. Melt the CVS repository and microwave the backup CDs. When things go wrong, I've often tried to play the hero from start to finish. Guess what? Some projects are doomed no matter what. Some need skills I don't possess. And some need a fresh face. -- Reginald Braithwaite

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.

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

I’d rather write programs to write programs than write programs. -- Richard Sites

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt

If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you! ~T. Harv Eker

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. ~Truman Capote

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu