Premature abstraction is an equally grevious sin as premature optimization. -- Keith Devens

Write it properly first. It's easier to make a correct program fast, than to make a fast program correct. -- http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/

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

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)

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

Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. -- Frederick P. Brooks, No Sliver Bullet.

Life is about making an impact, not making an income. --Kevin Kruse

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals. ~Booker T. Washington

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses