It took me some twenty-plus years to really learn how to program.

Nobody is an overnight success. Most overnight successes you see have been working at it for ten years.

Secret to productivity is not finding more time to do more stuff, but finding the strength to do less of the stuff that doesnt need doing.

If you're not working on your best idea right now, you're doing it wrong.

When sparks fly, some truly great ideas come to light.

There's nothing that will bring realism into your world as quickly as realizing that you're out of cash.

Fear is ugly because it makes you irrational. Fear makes you jump to conclusions. Fear makes you reactionary.

Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

Planning is not just guessing, it is harmful guessing, because it is a waste of time. All the time you spend doing your five year plan you can use to worry about tomorrow.

If you can't figure out how to make money on three billion in revenue, when exactly will the profit magic be found? Ten billion? Fifty billion?

A fool and his money will soon be departed applies equally to venture capitalists as it does to everyone else.

poets. have the toughest jobin the universe-of turning silenceinto eloquence.

I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

My poor life This shawl Frayed on strongboxes full of gold I roll along with Dream And smoke And the only flame in the universe

Atomism had no absolute 'above' and 'below' and no such rulers, so favoured the undersranding of justice as an agreement amongst equals.

Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it, you must climb down into the slime to do so. White cloaks show the dirt more thank black, and silver tarnishes.

Street fights are unpredictable, dirty fights.

I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all.