Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning. -- Rich Cook

Any sufficiently advanced technology is undistinguishable from magic. -- Arthur C. Clarke

You will never become a Great Programmer until you acknowledge that you will always be a Terrible Programmer. You will remain a Great Programmer for only as long as you acknowledge that you are still a Terrible Programmer. -- Marc (http://kickin-the-darkness.blogspot.com/)

Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS. -- Alan Kay

The problem is that Microsoft just has no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way. -- Steve Jobs

I would rather be an optimist and be wrong than a pessimist who proves to be right. The former sometimes wins, but never the latter. -- "Hoots"

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value. ~Albert Einstein

No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.~ Anonymous

If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission. ~Anonymous

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. ~Maya Angelou