I'm always happy to trade performance for readability as long as the former isn't already scarce. -- Crayz (Commentor on blog.raganwald.com)

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. -- Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Good coders code, great reuse. -- http://www.catonmat.net

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Opportunities that present themselves to you are the consequence -- at least partially -- of being in the right place at the right time. They tend to present themselves when you're not expecting it -- and often when you are engaged in other activities that would seem to preclude you from pursuing them. And they come and go quickly -- if you don't jump all over an opportunity, someone else generally will and it will vanish. -- Marc Andreessen (http://blog.pmarca.com/)

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ~Ralph Nader

It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot