It’s hard to grasp abstractions if you don’t understand what they’re abstracting away from. -- Nathan Weizenbaum

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)

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

PI seconds is a nanocentury. -- [fact]

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. -- Bill Gates

Code is poetry. -- wordpress.org

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. ~Bruce Lee

Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain. ~Anonymous

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. ~Thomas A. Edison

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. –Anais Nin