Just like carpentry, measure twice cut once. -- Super-sizing YouTube with Python (Mike Solomon, [email protected])

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. -- Hans Hofmann

Within a computer natural language is unnatural. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

A witty saying proves nothing -- Voltaire

The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability. -- Randall E. Stross

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

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. ~Anonymous

When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you. ~Lolly Daskal

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. ~Anonymous