There are many ways to avoid success in life, but the most sure-fire just might be procrastination. -- Hara Estroff Marano.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. -- Alfred North Whitehead (Introduction to Mathematics)

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. -- Cicero

For complex systems, the compiler and development environment need to be in the same language that its supporting. It's the only way to grow code. -- Alan Kay

I'm always happy to trade performance for readability as long as the former isn't already scarce. -- Crayz (Commentor on blog.raganwald.com)

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work. ~Thomas J. Watson

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all. ~Dale Carnegie

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. ~Maya Angelou