Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -- Alan Kay

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be regarded as a criminal offense. -- E.W. Dijkstra

Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. -- Frederick P. Brooks, No Sliver Bullet.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -- Benjamin Franklin

The best people and organizations have the attitude of wisdom: The courage to act on what they know right now and the humility to change course when they find better evidence. The quest for management magic and breakthrough ideas is overrated; being a master of the obvious is underrated. Jim Maloney is right: Work is an overrated activity -- Bob Sutton

The only thing a man should ever be 100% convinced of is his own ignorance. -- DJ MacLean

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. ~Bruce Lee

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. ~Diane Ackerman

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. ~George Lorimer

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors. ~Napoleon Hill