There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Ken Olson, President, Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977

If something isn’t working, you need to look back and figure out what got you excited in the first place. -- David Gorman (ImThere.com)

You have to write for your audience. I would never write (1..5).map &'*2' in Java when I could write ListFactoryFactory.getListFactoryFromResource( new ResourceName('com.javax.magnitudes.integers'). setLowerBound(1).setUpperBound(5).setStep(1).applyFunctor( new Functor () { public void eval (x) { return x * 2; } })) I'm simplifying, of course, I've left out the security and logging wrappers. -- Reginald Braithwait

Any sufficiently advanced technology is undistinguishable from magic. -- Arthur C. Clarke

A hacker on a roll may be able to produce–in a period of a few months–something that a small development group (say, 7-8 people) would have a hard time getting together over a year. IBM used to report that certain programmers might be as much as 100 times as productive as other workers, or more. -- Peter Seebach

Be the change you want to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. ~Colin R. Davis

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi

Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucius