Getting back to failing early, I've learned it's important to completely fail. Get fired. Shoot the project, then burn its corpse. Melt the CVS repository and microwave the backup CDs. When things go wrong, I've often tried to play the hero from start to finish. Guess what? Some projects are doomed no matter what. Some need skills I don't possess. And some need a fresh face. -- Reginald Braithwaite

But what is it good for? -- Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, commenting on the microchip, 1968

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. -- Rush (Freewill)

I think that a lot of programmers are ignoring an important point when people talk about reducing code repetition on large projects. Part of the idea is that large projects are intrinsically *wrong*. That you should be looking at making a number of smaller projects that are composable, even if you never end up reusing one of those smaller projects elsewhere. -- Dan Nugent

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. -- Aristotle.

Fools! Don't they know that tears are a woman's most effective weapon? -- Catwoman (The Batman TV Series, episode 83)

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ~Jim Ryun

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. –Sir Claus Moser

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out. ~Robert Collier