Give up control. You never really had it anyway. -- How to fail: 25 secrets learned through failure

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

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

I think there’s a world market for about 5 computers. -- Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the Board, IBM, circa 1948

The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit. -- Anonymous

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

The best revenge is massive success. –Frank Sinatra

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

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. –Booker T. Washington

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ~Herman Melville