I would rather be an optimist and be wrong than a pessimist who proves to be right. The former sometimes wins, but never the latter. -- "Hoots"

Programming is the art of figuring out what you want so precisely that even a machine can do it. -- Some guy who isn't famous

Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable. -- Ralph Johnson

Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming. -- Donald Knuth

Courage is grace under pressure. -- Ernest Hemingway

Sometimes a man with too broad a perspective reveals himself as having no real perspective at all. A man who tries too hard to see every side may be a man who is trying to avoid choosing any side. A man who tries too hard to seek a deeper truth may be trying to hide from the truth he already knows. That is not a sign of intellectual sophistication and "great thinking". It is a demonstration of moral degeneracy and cowardice. -- Steven Den Beste

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. –Roger Staubach

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. –Bob Dylan