Simplicity and pragmatism beat complexity and theory any day. -- Dennis (blog comment)

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

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. -- Aristotle.

To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. -- author unknown (quoted in `Robust Systems', Gerald Jay Suseman)

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

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

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. –Robert Frost