- If you give him a penny for his thoughts, you'd get change. - Not the sharpest knife in the drawer. - A prime candidate for natural deselection. -- [Ideas for flamewars]

There are many ways to avoid success in life, but the most sure-fire just might be procrastination. -- Hara Estroff Marano.

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

You think you know when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

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

What Paul does, and does very well, is to take ideas and concepts that are beautiful in the abstract, and brings them down to a real world level. That's a rare talent to find in writing these days. -- Jeff "hemos" Bates, Director, OSDN; Co-evolver, Slashdot

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ~Lolly Daskal

Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ~John R. Wooden

We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret. ~Earl Nightingale

To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like. ~Mike Gafka