Just like carpentry, measure twice cut once. -- Super-sizing YouTube with Python (Mike Solomon, [email protected])

Premature abstraction is an equally grevious sin as premature optimization. -- Keith Devens

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. -- Official definition of "duck typing"

A society that puts equality -- in the sense of equality of outcome -- ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests. -- Milton Friedman (Thomas Sowell: A Conflict of Visions, p130)

All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky. -- Joel Spolsky (The Law of Leaky Abstractions)

:nunmap can also be used outside of a monastery. -- Vim user manual

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller

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

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. ~Thomas A. Edison