Mistakes were made. -- Ronald Reagan

To follow the path: look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master. -- Modern zen Poem

Chance favors the prepared mind. -- Louis Pasteur

Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case. -- Francis Glassborow

Humans aren't rational -- they rationalize. And I don't just mean "some of them" or "other people". I'm talking about everyone. We have a "logic engine" in our brains, but for the most part, it's not the one in the driver's seat -- instead it operates after the fact, generating rationalizations and excuses for our behavior. -- Paul Buchheit

Ce n’est que par les beaux sentiments qu’on parvient à la fortune ! -- Charles Baudelaire, Conseils aux jeunes littérateurs.

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The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~Vidal Sassoon

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.~ Oscar Wilde

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso