It’s a problem if the design doesn’t let you add features at a later date. If you have to redo a program, the hours you spend can cause you to lose your competitive edge. A flexible program demonstrates the difference between a good designer and someone who is just getting a piece of code out. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

Good ideas are out there for anyone with the wit and the will to find them. -- Malcolm Gladwell, Who says big ideas are rare?

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. -- Aristotle.

You can have premature generalization as well as premature optimization. -- Bjarne Stroustrup

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. -- Mario Andretti

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

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. –Dalai Lama

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. –Florence Nightingale

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. ~Bruce Lee