Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex, intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple, stupid behavior. -- Dee Hock, Birth of the Chaordic Age

Dont give users the opportunity to lock themselves. -- unknown

Well then. How could you possibly live without automated refactoring tools? How else could you coordinate the caterpillar-like motions of all Java’s identical tiny legs, its thousands of similar parts? I’ll tell you how: Ruby is a butterfly. -- Stevey, Refactoring Trilogy, Part 1.

I think it is wise, and only honest, to warn you that my goal is immodest. It is not my purpose to "transfer knowledge" to you that, subsequently, you can forget again. My purpose is no less than to effectuate in each of you a noticeable, irreversable change. I want you to gain, for the rest of your lives, the insight that beautiful proofs are not "found" by trial anf error but are the result of a consciously applied design discipline. I want you to raise your quality standards. I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me. -- E. W. Dijkstra

Within a computer natural language is unnatural. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay

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

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing. ~Martha Stewart

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark Twain

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. ~Margaret Thatcher