Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -- Thomas Edison

You have to write for your audience. I would never write (1..5).map &'*2' in Java when I could write ListFactoryFactory.getListFactoryFromResource( new ResourceName('com.javax.magnitudes.integers'). setLowerBound(1).setUpperBound(5).setStep(1).applyFunctor( new Functor () { public void eval (x) { return x * 2; } })) I'm simplifying, of course, I've left out the security and logging wrappers. -- Reginald Braithwait

It's like a condom; I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it. -- some chick in Alien vs. Predator, when asked why she always carries a gun

A no uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a yes merely uttered to please or what is worse, to avoid trouble. -- Mahatma Gandhi

Rules of Optimization: Rule 1: Don’t do it. Rule 2 (for experts only): Don’t do it yet. -- M.A. Jackson

Premature abstraction is an equally grevious sin as premature optimization. -- Keith Devens

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –Marie Curie

Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb

What’s the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable. ~Anonymous

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin