To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. -- author unknown (quoted in `Robust Systems', Gerald Jay Suseman)

I was talking recently to a friend who teaches at MIT. His field is hot now and every year he is inundated by applications from would-be graduate students. "A lot of them seem smart," he said. "What I can't tell is whether they have any kind of taste." -- Paul Graham

Any fool can make the simple complex, only a smart person can make the complex simple. -- unknown

The only constant in the world of hi-tech is change. -- Mark Ward

Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. -- Eagleson’s Law

No matter how much you plan you’re likely to get half wrong anyway. So don’t do the ‘paralysis through analysis’ thing. That only slows progress and saps morale. -- 37 Signal, Getting real

Your problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction is the problem. ~Anonymous

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

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ~Pablo Picasso

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown