Good ideas are out there for anyone with the wit and the will to find them. -- Malcolm Gladwell, Who says big ideas are rare?

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. -- Official definition of "duck typing"

State is the root of all evil. In particular functions with side effects should be avoided. -- OO Sucks (bluetail.com)

When your enemy is making a very serious mistake, don't be impolite and disturb him. -- Napoleon Bonaparte (allegedly)

XML wasn't designed to be edited by humans on a regular basis. -- Guido van Rossum

Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. -- Mary Ellen Kelly

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.~ Oscar Wilde

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses

14.Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. –Mark Twain

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu