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/)

And if you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all. -- Joel Spolsky

A guideline in the process of stepwise refinement should be the principle to decompose decisions as much as possible, to untangle aspects which are only seemingly interdependent, and to defer those decisions which concern details of representation as long as possible. -- Niklaus Wirth

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration. -- Stan Kelly-Bootle

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. -- Hugh Kingsmill

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. -- Anonymous

Teach thy tongue to say, I do not know, and thous shalt progress. –Maimonides

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. –Booker T. Washington

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. ~John D. Rockefeller

The mind is everything. What you think you become. –Buddha