Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. -- Eagleson’s Law

Opportunities that present themselves to you are the consequence -- at least partially -- of being in the right place at the right time. They tend to present themselves when you're not expecting it -- and often when you are engaged in other activities that would seem to preclude you from pursuing them. And they come and go quickly -- if you don't jump all over an opportunity, someone else generally will and it will vanish. -- Marc Andreessen (http://blog.pmarca.com/)

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. -- Mario Andretti

A person won't retain proficiency at a task unless he or she has at one time learned to perform that task very rapidly. Learning research demonstrates that the skills of people who become accurate but not fast deteriorate much sooner than the skills of people who become both accurate and fast. -- Philip Greenspun

Only make new mistakes. -- Phil Dourado

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. -- Lao­Tzu

If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got. ~Anonymous

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors. ~Napoleon Hill

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins

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