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

Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming. -- Donald Knuth

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as *lines produced* but as *lines spent*. -- Edsger Dijkstra

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. -- Hans Hofmann

A tail call allows a function to return the result of another function without leaving an entry on the stack. Tail recursion is a specific case of tail calling. -- ASPN : Python Cookbook : Explicit Tail Call

Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb

The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do. ~Anonymous

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ~Eleanor Roosevelt