What we choose to fight is so tiny! What fights us is so great! ... When we win it's with small things, and the triumph itself makes us small. ... Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings. -- Rainer Maria Rilke, The Man Watching.

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

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

You will never become a Great Programmer until you acknowledge that you will always be a Terrible Programmer. You will remain a Great Programmer for only as long as you acknowledge that you are still a Terrible Programmer. -- Marc (http://kickin-the-darkness.blogspot.com/)

Training research shows that if you get speed now you can get quality later. But if you don't get speed you will never get quality in the long run. -- Philip Greenspun

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it. -- Alberti

If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents- start charging for it. ~Kim Garst

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. ~David Brinkley

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ~Herman Melville

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