I think that a lot of programmers are ignoring an important point when people talk about reducing code repetition on large projects. Part of the idea is that large projects are intrinsically *wrong*. That you should be looking at making a number of smaller projects that are composable, even if you never end up reusing one of those smaller projects elsewhere. -- Dan Nugent
XML wasn't designed to be edited by humans on a regular basis. -- Guido van Rossum
Never do the impossible. People will expect you to do it forever after. -- pigsandfishes.com
I think it is wise, and only honest, to warn you that my goal is immodest. It is not my purpose to "transfer knowledge" to you that, subsequently, you can forget again. My purpose is no less than to effectuate in each of you a noticeable, irreversable change. I want you to gain, for the rest of your lives, the insight that beautiful proofs are not "found" by trial anf error but are the result of a consciously applied design discipline. I want you to raise your quality standards. I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me. -- E. W. Dijkstra
PI seconds is a nanocentury. -- [fact]
Chance favors the prepared mind. -- Louis Pasteur
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice. ~Wayne Dyer
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. –Florence Nightingale
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. ~Maya Angelou