Simplicity and pragmatism beat complexity and theory any day. -- Dennis (blog comment)

You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery and you create a feeling of strength in reserve. -- Pablo Picasso

It was Edison who said ‘1% inspiration, 99% perspiration’. That may have been true a hundred years ago. These days it's ‘0.01% inspiration, 99.99% perspiration’, and the inspiration is the easy part. -- Linux Torvalds

The only constant in the world of hi-tech is change. -- Mark Ward

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. -- Anonymous

A person won't become proficient at something until he or she has done it many times. In other words., if you want someone to be really good at building a software system, he or she will have to have built 10 or more systems of that type. -- Philip Greenspun

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. ~Anonymous

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. –Roger Staubach

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. ~Mark Twain

The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do. ~Anonymous