No matter how much you plan you’re likely to get half wrong anyway. So don’t do the ‘paralysis through analysis’ thing. That only slows progress and saps morale. -- 37 Signal, Getting real

Luck is where preparation meets opportunity. -- Randy Pausch

I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (attributed)

Omit needless words. -- William Strunk, Jr. (The Elements of Style)

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. -- Elie Wiesel

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. ~Walt Disney

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

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr.

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