No matter how much you plan you’re likely to get half wrong anyway. So don’t do the ‘paralysis through analysis’ thing. That only slows progress and saps morale. -- 37 Signal, Getting real

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years. -- John Von Neumann, circa 1949

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. -- Rush (Freewill)

The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it [Leadership]. -- Dwight D. Enseinhover.

A guideline in the process of stepwise refinement should be the principle to decompose decisions as much as possible, to untangle aspects which are only seemingly interdependent, and to defer those decisions which concern details of representation as long as possible. -- Niklaus Wirth

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. -- Official definition of "duck typing"

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. ~Bill Gates

Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. –Jesus

If you’re going through hell keep going. ~Winston Churchill

To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like. ~Mike Gafka