So - what are the most important problems in software engineering? I’d answer “dealing with complexity”. -- Mark Chu-Carroll

I'm always happy to trade performance for readability as long as the former isn't already scarce. -- Crayz (Commentor on blog.raganwald.com)

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

Good coders code, great reuse. -- http://www.catonmat.net

Processors don't get better so that they can have more free time. Processors get better so _you_ can have more free time. -- LeCamarade (freeshells.ch)

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Ken Olson, President, Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument. ~Anonymous

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absense of fear. ~Mark Twain

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work. ~Thomas J. Watson