You can have premature generalization as well as premature optimization. -- Bjarne Stroustrup

Opportunities that present themselves to you are the consequence -- at least partially -- of being in the right place at the right time. They tend to present themselves when you're not expecting it -- and often when you are engaged in other activities that would seem to preclude you from pursuing them. And they come and go quickly -- if you don't jump all over an opportunity, someone else generally will and it will vanish. -- Marc Andreessen (http://blog.pmarca.com/)

The president was visiting NASA headquarters and stopped to talk to a man who was holding a mop. “And what do you do?” he asked. The man, a janitor, replied, “I’m helping to put a man on the moon, sir.” -- The little book of leadership

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. -- Bill Gates

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. -- Eric Raymond

In God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me? -- David (Psalm 56:4)

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. ~Albert Einstein

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin

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