A person won't become proficient at something until he or she has done it many times. In other words., if you want someone to be really good at building a software system, he or she will have to have built 10 or more systems of that type. -- Philip Greenspun

- If you give him a penny for his thoughts, you'd get change. - Not the sharpest knife in the drawer. - A prime candidate for natural deselection. -- [Ideas for flamewars]

The problem is that small examples fail to convince, and large examples are too big to follow. -- Steve Yegge.

Il y a très loin de la velléité à la volnt, de la volonté à la résolution, de la résolution au choix des moyens, du choix ds moyens à lapplication. -- Jean-François Paul de Gondi de Retz

The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein

Good artists copy. Great artists steal. -- Pablo Picasso

Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. –Jesus

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. –Florence Nightingale

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ~Lolly Daskal