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

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them. -- Alan Perlis

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

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years. -- John Von Neumann, circa 1949

Seize any opportunity, or anything that looks like opportunity. They are rare, much rarer than you think... -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, "The Black Swan".

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. ~Dale Carnegie

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. –Aristotle

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals. ~Booker T. Washington