Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. -- Bill Gates

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration. -- Stan Kelly-Bootle

I had to learn how to teach less, so that more could be learned. -- Tim Gallwey, The inner game of work

Sometimes a man with too broad a perspective reveals himself as having no real perspective at all. A man who tries too hard to see every side may be a man who is trying to avoid choosing any side. A man who tries too hard to seek a deeper truth may be trying to hide from the truth he already knows. That is not a sign of intellectual sophistication and "great thinking". It is a demonstration of moral degeneracy and cowardice. -- Steven Den Beste

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -- Thomas Edison

All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky. -- Joel Spolsky (The Law of Leaky Abstractions)

15.Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –Charles Swindoll

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~Anonymous

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. –Abigail Van Buren

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. –Robert Frost