If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. -- Mario Andretti

Remember: you are alone. Every time you can get help from someone, it is an opportunity: you should eagerly size it. But then, promptly return to normal mode: you are alone and you must be prepared to solve every problem yourself. -- Eric KEDJI

Making All Software Into Tools Reduces Risk. -- smoothspan.com

There really is no learning without doing. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

We control complexity by building abstractions that hide details when appropriate. We control complexity by establishing conventional interfaces that enable us to construct systems by combining standard, well-understood pieces in a ``mix and match'' way. We control complexity by establishing new languages for describing a design, each of which emphasizes particular aspects of the design and deemphasizes others. -- Alan J. Perlis

The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference. -- Elie Wiesel

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. –Booker T. Washington

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. –Aristotle

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it. ~Washington Irving