A no uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a yes merely uttered to please or what is worse, to avoid trouble. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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

Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it ain't fun -- it's entertainment. -- David Mamet (as relayed by Joss Whedon)

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Cited by Randy Pausch

Code is poetry. -- wordpress.org

Philosophy: the finding of bad reasons for what one believes by instinct. -- Brave New World (paraphrased)

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. ~David Brinkley

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. –Booker T. Washington

It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. ~Margaret Thatcher