A person won't retain proficiency at a task unless he or she has at one time learned to perform that task very rapidly. Learning research demonstrates that the skills of people who become accurate but not fast deteriorate much sooner than the skills of people who become both accurate and fast. -- Philip Greenspun

No problem should ever have to be solved twice. -- Eric S. Raymond, How to become a hacker

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

Good artists copy. Great artists steal. -- Pablo Picasso

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

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -- Mark Twain

It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. –Ann Landers

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato