“To every man there comes in his lifetime that special moment when he is figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered a chance to do a very special thing, unique to him and fitted to his talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds him unprepared or unqualified for that which would be his finest hour.”

– Winston Churchill

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

— George Bernard Shaw

scalability is not your problem, getting people to give a shit is

– Ted Dziuba

from Jeff Atwood’s Coding Horror blog