I think of programming with beauty in mind, as being somthing elegant, something that you can be proud of for the way it fits together. - Donald Knuth

Having the capital cost of equipment drop to effectively zero allows you to think bigger. You start thinking about the whole thing. For instance, the gutsy maneuver of saying "let's index it all," which was the breakthrough of Altavista . Altavista in 1995 was an astonishing achievement, not because of the hardware -- yes, that was interesting and important from a technical perspective -- but because of the mindset. "Let's go index every document in the world." And once you have that sort of mindset, you can get really far. - Brewster Kahle

Don't flinch, don't foul, and hit the line hard. - Teddy Roosevelt

What people mean by the word 'technology' is the stuff that doesn't really work yet. - Danny Hillis

more managers ... means inefficiencies, higher costs and slower decision-making. - Carly Fiorina

I'd rather listen to Newton than to (Microsoft VP Craig Mundie). He may have been dead for almost three hundred years, but despite that he stinks up the room less. - Linus Torvalds

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX. - Steve Wozniak

(This one isn't cute but I don't have a page for inspirational quotations) "Don't flinch, don't foul, and hit the line hard." Teddy Roosevelt on how life is like football.