The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. -- Anonymous
Processors don't get better so that they can have more free time. Processors get better so _you_ can have more free time. -- LeCamarade (freeshells.ch)
Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline. -- Bill Clinton
Another feature about this guy is his low threshold of boredom. He'll pick up on a task and work frantically at it, accomplishing wonders in a short time and then get bored and drop it before its properly finished. He'll do nothing but strum his guitar and lie around in bed for several days after. Thats also part of the pattern too; periods of frenetic activity followed by periods of melancholia, withdrawal and inactivity. This is a bipolar personality. -- The bipolar lisp programmer
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. -- Larry Wall (Programming Perl)
You can have premature generalization as well as premature optimization. -- Bjarne Stroustrup
Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. –Michael Jordan
We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret. ~Earl Nightingale
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it. ~Henry Ford