The most damaging phrase in the language is, It's always been done that way. -- Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

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

Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act — if you can’t control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word. -- Nassim Taleb

We control complexity by building abstractions that hide details when appropriate. We control complexity by establishing conventional interfaces that enable us to construct systems by combining standard, well-understood pieces in a ``mix and match'' way. We control complexity by establishing new languages for describing a design, each of which emphasizes particular aspects of the design and deemphasizes others. -- Alan J. Perlis

Two people should stay together if together they are better people than they would be individually. -- ?

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

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

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt

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

You can do anything, but not everything. ~Anonymous