You can have premature generalization as well as premature optimization. -- Bjarne Stroustrup

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration. -- Stan Kelly-Bootle

J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence. -- Anatole France

In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume that it is true and try to find out what it could be true of. -- George Miller

A witty saying proves nothing -- Voltaire

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them. -- Alan Perlis

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. –Aristotle

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ~Swami Vivekananda

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby