Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them. -- Alan Perlis

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. -- Seneca

The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit. -- Anonymous

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programmi ng)

Pay attention to opportunity cost at all times. Doing one thing means not doing other things. This is a form of risk that is very easy to ignore, to your detriment. -- Marc Andreessen (http://blog.pmarca.com/)

You have to write for your audience. I would never write (1..5).map &'*2' in Java when I could write ListFactoryFactory.getListFactoryFromResource( new ResourceName('com.javax.magnitudes.integers'). setLowerBound(1).setUpperBound(5).setStep(1).applyFunctor( new Functor () { public void eval (x) { return x * 2; } })) I'm simplifying, of course, I've left out the security and logging wrappers. -- Reginald Braithwait

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. –Leonardo da Vinci

You can do anything, but not everything. ~Anonymous

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. ~Colin R. Davis

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.~ Anatole France