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

Courage is grace under pressure. -- Ernest Hemingway

Simplicity and pragmatism beat complexity and theory any day. -- Dennis (blog comment)

I had to learn how to teach less, so that more could be learned. -- Tim Gallwey, The inner game of work

1 - Creativity and innovation always build on the past. 2 - The past always tries to control the creativity that builds on it. 3 - Free societies enable the future by limiting the past. 4 - Ours is less and less a free society. -- Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture.

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. –Vincent Van Gogh

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absense of fear. ~Mark Twain

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

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle