C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce. -- Scott McKay

C and Lisp stand at opposite ends of the spectrum; they're each great at what the other one sucks at. -- Steve Yegge, Tour de Babel.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -- Mark Twain

Never do the impossible. People will expect you to do it forever after. -- pigsandfishes.com

No problem should ever have to be solved twice. -- Eric S. Raymond, How to become a hacker

I think that a lot of programmers are ignoring an important point when people talk about reducing code repetition on large projects. Part of the idea is that large projects are intrinsically *wrong*. That you should be looking at making a number of smaller projects that are composable, even if you never end up reusing one of those smaller projects elsewhere. -- Dan Nugent

The starting point of all achievement is desire. ~Napolean Hill

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan

You can do anything, but not everything. ~Anonymous

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly. ~Proverb