:nunmap can also be used outside of a monastery. -- Vim user manual

Rules of Optimization: Rule 1: Don’t do it. Rule 2 (for experts only): Don’t do it yet. -- M.A. Jackson

It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. -- Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper

To iterate is human, to recurse divine. -- L. Peter Deutsch

Always dive down into a problem and get your hands on the deepest issue behind the problem. All other considerations are to dismissed as "engineering details"; they can be sorted out after the basic problem has been solved. -- Chris Crawford

Acknowledging the negative doesn't mean sniveling [whining, complaining]; it means facing the truth and then moving on. -- George Leonard, Mastery.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. ~Truman Capote

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. –John Lennon

Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb

Teach thy tongue to say, I do not know, and thous shalt progress. –Maimonides