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

I think it is wise, and only honest, to warn you that my goal is immodest. It is not my purpose to "transfer knowledge" to you that, subsequently, you can forget again. My purpose is no less than to effectuate in each of you a noticeable, irreversable change. I want you to gain, for the rest of your lives, the insight that beautiful proofs are not "found" by trial anf error but are the result of a consciously applied design discipline. I want you to raise your quality standards. I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me. -- E. W. Dijkstra

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. -- Mark Twain

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

Having large case statements in an object-oriented language is a sure sign your design is flawed. -- [Fixing architecture flaws in Rails' ORM]

Normality is the route to nowhere. -- Ridderstrale & Nordstorm, Funky Business

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly. ~Proverb

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins