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

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Goethe

L’art qui satisfait le besoin le plus impérieux sera toujours le plus honoré. -- Charles Baudelaire, Conseils aux jeunes littérateurs.

The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability. -- Randall E. Stross

There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. -- C. A. R. Hoare

You can do anything, but not everything. ~Anonymous

If you’re going through hell keep going. ~Winston Churchill

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart