In God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me? -- David (Psalm 56:4)

As builders and creators finding the perfect solution should not be our main goal. We should find the perfect problem. -- Isaac (blog comment)

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. -- Edsger Dijkstra

Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable. -- Ralph Johnson

A hacker on a roll may be able to produce–in a period of a few months–something that a small development group (say, 7-8 people) would have a hard time getting together over a year. IBM used to report that certain programmers might be as much as 100 times as productive as other workers, or more. -- Peter Seebach

A person won't retain proficiency at a task unless he or she has at one time learned to perform that task very rapidly. Learning research demonstrates that the skills of people who become accurate but not fast deteriorate much sooner than the skills of people who become both accurate and fast. -- Philip Greenspun

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses

Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them. ~Anonymous

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

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe