Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. -- Mary Ellen Kelly

A guideline in the process of stepwise refinement should be the principle to decompose decisions as much as possible, to untangle aspects which are only seemingly interdependent, and to defer those decisions which concern details of representation as long as possible. -- Niklaus Wirth

Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning. -- Rich Cook

We tend to seek easy, single-factor explanations of success. For most important things, though, success actually requires avoiding many separate causes of failure. -- Jared Diamond

A person won't retain proficiency at a task unless he or she has at one time learned to perform that task very rapidly. Learning research demonstrates that the skills of people who become accurate but not fast deteriorate much sooner than the skills of people who become both accurate and fast. -- Philip Greenspun

Bonne bosse et reste le boss. -- Darryl Amedon

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. ~Bruce Lee

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

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. ~Dale Carnegie

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato