We tend to seek easy, single-factor explanations of success. For most important things, though, success actually requires avoiding many separate causes of failure. -- Jared Diamond

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

I’d rather write programs to write programs than write programs. -- Richard Sites

You have to write for your audience. I would never write (1..5).map &'*2' in Java when I could write ListFactoryFactory.getListFactoryFromResource( new ResourceName('com.javax.magnitudes.integers'). setLowerBound(1).setUpperBound(5).setStep(1).applyFunctor( new Functor () { public void eval (x) { return x * 2; } })) I'm simplifying, of course, I've left out the security and logging wrappers. -- Reginald Braithwait

[How friendly will this machine be?] Well, I don’t think it’s a matter of friendliness, because ultimately if the program is going to accomplish anything of value, it will probably be relatively complex. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

We really have to get over the idea that some stuff is just worth knowing even if you never do anything with it. Human memories happily erase stuff that has no purpose, so why try to fill up children's heads with such stuff? -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it. ~Henry Ford

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. ~Colin R. Davis

Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale