The most damaging phrase in the language is, It's always been done that way. -- Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

It's like a condom; I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it. -- some chick in Alien vs. Predator, when asked why she always carries a gun

I think that a lot of programmers are ignoring an important point when people talk about reducing code repetition on large projects. Part of the idea is that large projects are intrinsically *wrong*. That you should be looking at making a number of smaller projects that are composable, even if you never end up reusing one of those smaller projects elsewhere. -- Dan Nugent

C++ is like teenage sex: Everybody is talking about it all the time, only few are really doing it. -- unknown

A witty saying proves nothing -- Voltaire

There are many ways to avoid success in life, but the most sure-fire just might be procrastination. -- Hara Estroff Marano.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby

The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place. ~Guy Kawasaki

If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got. ~Anonymous

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself--the invisible battles inside all of us--that's where it's at. –Jesse Owens