When your enemy is making a very serious mistake, don't be impolite and disturb him. -- Napoleon Bonaparte (allegedly)

To iterate is human, to recurse divine. -- L. Peter Deutsch

Photography is painting with light. -- Eric Hamilton

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

Programming is the art of figuring out what you want so precisely that even a machine can do it. -- Some guy who isn't famous

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be regarded as a criminal offense. -- E.W. Dijkstra

If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got. ~Anonymous

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. –Leonardo da Vinci

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. –Booker T. Washington

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe