Never do the impossible. People will expect you to do it forever after. -- pigsandfishes.com

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

The general principle for complexity design is this: Think locally, act locally. -- Richard P. Gabriel & Ron Goldman, Mob Software: The Erotic Life of Code

Humans differ from animals to the degree that they are not merely an end result of their conditioning, but are able to reflect on their experiences and strategies, and apply insight to make changes in the way they live to modify the outcome. -- SlideTrombone (comment on "Programming can ruin your life")

All great things require great dedication. -- Chuck Norris(?)

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. -- C.S. Lewis

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill

An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. ~Albert Einstein

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. ~George Bernard Shaw