When there’s a will to fail, obstacles can be found. John McCarthy (1983)

John McCarthy (September 4, 1927 – October 24, 2011) was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist who received the Turing Award in 1971 for his major contributions to the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). He was responsible for the coining of the term “Artificial Intelligence” in his 1955 proposal for the 1956 Dartmouth Conference and was the inventor of the Lisp programming language.

You can win with a long weapon, and yet you can also win with a short weapon. Because our way is the spirit of winning, whatever the weapon and whatever it’s size. Musashi Miyamoto

“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing” Lao Tzu,

Probably not the best first post for a category, but still a good one:

Marylin Delpy (in The Social Network): You’re not an asshole, Mark. You’re just trying so hard to be one.