Quotes

"Yaksha: What is the greatest wonder?
Yudhishtira: Every day countless men leave this world to meet Yama, yet the ones who remain act as if they will live forever." -- Yaksha Prashnam, Mahabharata

"For one thousand years I indulged in all the material pleasures of this world, a thousand years I experienced passion to the fullest, for a thousand years I have followed my uncontrolled senses and after a thousand years I find not my cravings appeased but aggravated. O' Puru, renounce your desires and seek instead that which is beyond this material world if you aspire for peace and happiness."
-- Yayati, to his son Puru with whom he exchanges his youth trying to escape away from the aging of his body, Bhagvata Puranam

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost,
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost" -- Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkein

"The giant ???? was once hit in one eye by a stone and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there." -- The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, Patricia A. Mckillip

It is one thing to go out into the world looking for adventures but be very cautious when you open your front door. For you will find that the things that slip in may not be so willing to leave. -- (paraphrased from) Memory-Sorrow-Thorn, Tad Williams

"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair." -- Douglas Adams

The only winning move is to not play.

Always question what long term loss you are taking for a some short term gains. -- From an HN user

"A 10x programmer is not he who codes 10 times faster but he who manages to achieve the same task with 1/10th the code." -- From an HN user

A few weeks of programming can save you hours of planning.