It is better to be quiet and thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. -- WikiHow

Sound methodology can empower and liberate the creative mind; it cannot inflame or inspire the drudge. -- Frederick P. Brooks, No Sliver Bullet.

I think that a lot of programmers are ignoring an important point when people talk about reducing code repetition on large projects. Part of the idea is that large projects are intrinsically *wrong*. That you should be looking at making a number of smaller projects that are composable, even if you never end up reusing one of those smaller projects elsewhere. -- Dan Nugent

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. -- Thomas Jefferson

Chance favors the prepared mind. -- Louis Pasteur

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are always cocksure and the intelligent are always filled with doubt. -- Bertrand Russell

We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. ~Jane Smiley

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absense of fear. ~Mark Twain

Life isn't about getting and having, it's about giving and being. –Kevin Kruse