Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder. -- Erik Naggum

It’s a problem if the design doesn’t let you add features at a later date. If you have to redo a program, the hours you spend can cause you to lose your competitive edge. A flexible program demonstrates the difference between a good designer and someone who is just getting a piece of code out. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

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

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not so sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein

No problem should ever have to be solved twice. -- Eric S. Raymond, How to become a hacker

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. -- Hugh Kingsmill

Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen

Opportunities don’t happen, you create them. ~Chris Grosser

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

Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucius