"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
- Mohandas Karamchand “Mahatma” Gandhi
"A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job."
- Thomas A. Edison
"Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming."
- John Carmack
"Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul."
- John Carmack
"Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won't do it well anyway."
- Brian Kernighan
"Software has to be designed by hackers who understand design, not designers who know a little about software. If you can't design software as well as implement it, don't start a startup."
- Paul Graham