Be the change you want to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi

The general principle for complexity design is this: Think locally, act locally. -- Richard P. Gabriel & Ron Goldman, Mob Software: The Erotic Life of Code

Remember: you are alone. Every time you can get help from someone, it is an opportunity: you should eagerly size it. But then, promptly return to normal mode: you are alone and you must be prepared to solve every problem yourself. -- Eric KEDJI

It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. -- Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. -- Bertrand Russell

The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made. -- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. –Vincent Van Gogh

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” –Audrey Hepburn

Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them. ~Anonymous