Mistakes were made. -- Ronald Reagan

Abstraction is a form of data compression: absolutely necessary, because human short-term memory is so small, but the critically important aspect of abstraction is the algorithm that gets you from the name back to the "uncompressed" details. -- Bruce Wilder (blog post comment)

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

Work as intensely as you play and play as intensely as you work. -- Eric S. Raymond, How To Be A Hacker

A society that puts equality -- in the sense of equality of outcome -- ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests. -- Milton Friedman (Thomas Sowell: A Conflict of Visions, p130)

C and Lisp stand at opposite ends of the spectrum; they're each great at what the other one sucks at. -- Steve Yegge, Tour de Babel.

Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life. ~Dr. APJ Kalam

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. –Joshua J. Marine

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. ~Mark Twain

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. –Abigail Van Buren