In terms of energy, it's better to make a wrong choice than none at all. -- George Leonard, Mastery.

A person won't become proficient at something until he or she has done it many times. In other words., if you want someone to be really good at building a software system, he or she will have to have built 10 or more systems of that type. -- Philip Greenspun

Fools! Don't they know that tears are a woman's most effective weapon? -- Catwoman (The Batman TV Series, episode 83)

Simplicity and pragmatism beat complexity and theory any day. -- Dennis (blog comment)

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

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

Teach thy tongue to say, I do not know, and thous shalt progress. –Maimonides

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

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

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. ~Mark Caine