Linux is only free if your time has no value. -- Jamie Zawinski

Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case. -- Francis Glassborow

Never do the impossible. People will expect you to do it forever after. -- pigsandfishes.com

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832)

To follow the path: look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master. -- Modern zen Poem

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

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese Proverb

Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain. ~Anonymous

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ~Swami Vivekananda

It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot