"Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show how badly we want something. "

~Randy Pausch, Last Lecture (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo)

"Apparently the most likely animals to be left alive after a nuclear war are cockroaches, because they're so hard to kill. That's what you want to be as a startup, initially. Instead of a beautiful but fragile flower that needs to have its stem in a plastic tube to support itself, better to be small, ugly, and indestructible."

- PG in The hacker's guide to investors, Apr 2007

"I get knocked down but I get up again -- you're never gonna keep me down" -- Tubthumping by Chumbawamba

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5uWRjFsGc

"We are still young, we are still eager to make mistakes."

"It is not the string of wrongs past, but the wrongs to come that I must look forward to."

Sorry, don't remember the sources.

I can't help myself http://cheks.in/eRFqrz

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up." - Vince Lombardi