Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable. -- Ralph Johnson

Do not accept anything because it comes from the mouth of a respected person. -- Buddha

Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. -- Alan J. Perlis

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

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. -- C.S. Lewis

Mastering isn’t a survival instinct; it’s an urge to excel. Mastering is one of the experiences that delineates us from animals. It is striving to be more tomorrow than we are today; to perfectly pitch the ball over home plate; to craft the perfect sentence in an article; to open the oven and feel the warm, richly-scented cloud telling you dinner is going to be absolutely extraordinary. We humans crave perfection, to be masters of our domain, to distinguish ourselves by sheer skill and prowess. -- Joesgoals.com

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. ~Anonymous

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe