The only thing a man should ever be 100% convinced of is his own ignorance. -- DJ MacLean

Its a shame that the students of our generation grew up with windows and mice because that tainted our mindset not to think in terms of powerful tools. Some of us are just so tainted that we will never recover. -- Jeffrey Mark Siskind in comp.lang.lisp

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programmi ng)

Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte. (I have made this letter so long only because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.) -- Blaise Pascal (Lettres Provinciales)

Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means. -- Dr. Koichi Kawana

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

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ~Pablo Picasso

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. –Erma Bombeck

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them. ~Vaibhav Shah

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox