Quality of the people is better than the quality of the business idea. Crappy people can screw up the best idea in the world. -- Hadi Partovi & Ali Partovi (iLike.com), Talk at StartupSchool2007

A person won't become proficient at something until he or she has done it many times. In other words., if you want someone to be really good at building a software system, he or she will have to have built 10 or more systems of that type. -- Philip Greenspun

I guess, when you're drunk, every woman looks beautiful and every language looks (like) a Lisp :) -- Lament, #[email protected]

The greatest of all weaknesses is the fear of appearing weak. -- J. B. Bossuet, Politics from Holy Writ, 1709

We remember what we learn when we care about performing better and when we believe that what we have been asked to do is representative of reality. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

Mistakes were made. -- Ronald Reagan

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. ~Colin R. Davis

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. –Henry David Thoreau