New eyes have X-ray vision. [someone that hasn't written it is more likely to spot the bug. "someone" can be you after a break] -- William S. Annis

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -- Thomas Edison

The programmer must seek both perfection of part and adequacy of collection. -- Alan J. Perlis

The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made. -- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

The most damaging phrase in the language is, It's always been done that way. -- Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

Only bad designers blame their failings on the users. -- unknown

Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. –Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. –Ann Landers