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)

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. -- Aristotle.

A guideline in the process of stepwise refinement should be the principle to decompose decisions as much as possible, to untangle aspects which are only seemingly interdependent, and to defer those decisions which concern details of representation as long as possible. -- Niklaus Wirth

The problem is that small examples fail to convince, and large examples are too big to follow. -- Steve Yegge.

[Innovation] comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important. -- Steve Jobs

A little learning is a dangerous thing. -- Alexander Pope

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ~Ralph Nader

You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing. ~Philippos

We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret. ~Earl Nightingale