"To help people believe they can achieve victory, put them in a position to experience small successes."

“In ten years I will become president of the United States Of America.”

“There is no "era" of simple, focused, concept-driven identity design. There is only design that grows out of understanding audiences for specific problems, and that evolves from an idea. This is an approach that does not depend on any specific time period or its technology.”

Source : Source: www.printmag.com

“I was born deaf, and I gained my hearing back when I was six months old - it was a miraculous event.”

“If you let the world in, you open yourself up to the world. Even if the world doesn't know that you're there.”

“If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start with.”

Source : "The Humble Programmer". Edsger Dijkstra's ACM Turing Award lecture, "Communications of the ACM", Volume 15, No. 10, www.cs.utexas.edu. October 1972.

“Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now.”

Source : "Woodman, Spare That Tree" l. 1 (1830) See Thomas Campbell 2

“The things that you did with parents, whether it was spending every Sunday morning with your dad and eating French toast and watching Popeye, or decorating the Christmas tree with our mother - these are memories that help you be happy.”

“You're mine, Angel, and don't you forget it. Your fights are my fights. What if something bad had happened today? It was bad enough when I thought your ghost was haunting me; I don't think I can handle the real thing.”