Making All Software Into Tools Reduces Risk. -- smoothspan.com
The only thing a man should ever be 100% convinced of is his own ignorance. -- DJ MacLean
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. -- Mario Andretti
I'm always happy to trade performance for readability as long as the former isn't already scarce. -- Crayz (Commentor on blog.raganwald.com)
Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. -- Ancient Eastern adage
This challenge, viz. the confrontation with the programming task, is so unique that this novel experience can teach us a lot about ourselves. It should deepen our understanding of the processes of design and creation, it should give us better control over the task of organizing our thoughts. If it did not do so, to my taste we should no deserve the computer at all! It has allready taught us a few lessons, and the one I have chosen to stress in this talk is the following. We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremenduous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsec limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers. -- E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer
I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin
There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle
You can do anything, but not everything. ~Anonymous
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein