Fools! Don't they know that tears are a woman's most effective weapon? -- Catwoman (The Batman TV Series, episode 83)

Processors don't get better so that they can have more free time. Processors get better so _you_ can have more free time. -- LeCamarade (freeshells.ch)

The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made. -- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple. -- Grady Booch

Everything that can be invented has been invented. -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

Attitude is no substitute for competence. -- Eric S. Raymond, How to become a hacker

If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission. ~Anonymous

Teach thy tongue to say, I do not know, and thous shalt progress. –Maimonides

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. ~Bill Gates

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. ~Maya Angelou