You cannot and should not try to please everyone. Make sure that the right people like you, and it will be expected that others will not. That's how the world works.

Believe passionately in what you do, and never knowingly compromise your standards and values. Act like a true professional, aiming for true excellence, and the money will follow.

Professional is not a label you give yourself - it's a description you hope others will apply to you.

What you do with your billable time determines your current income, but what you do with your non-billable time determines your future.

Focus on being the best you can at what you want to do.

I will accept your influence, guidance and direction if (and only if) I believe that you and I share similar goals.

Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't trust your motives, nothing else will matter -because my primary concern is your integrity.

If your clients aren't actively telling their friends about you, maybe your work isn't as great as you think it is.

Success comes from doing what you enjoy. If you don't enjoy it, how can it be called success?

Left untended, knowledge and skill, like all assets, depreciate in value surprisingly quickly.

More than any other factor, it is the people we have to deal with that determine the quality of our work lives.

Those who prosper by thievery, thuggery, or by ruining another, have chosen to live on the devil's dime.

The same computers that make it impossible for you to cheat on your income tax can ensure that the blood of your group is in the ambulance that picks you up from a car smash.

He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.

I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.

The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.

My natural orientation has never been among a community of writers, really. For some reason my social world has always been in the art world.

PHP is about as exciting as your toothbrush. You use it every day, it does the job, it is a simple tool, so what? Who would want to read about toothbrushes?

Only in action can you fully realize the forces operative in social behavior. That is why I am an experimentalist.

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

We're living in an increasingly nationalistic, xenophobic time, and you can see it reflected in societies all over the world.