We really have to get over the idea that some stuff is just worth knowing even if you never do anything with it. Human memories happily erase stuff that has no purpose, so why try to fill up children's heads with such stuff? -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it ain't fun -- it's entertainment. -- David Mamet (as relayed by Joss Whedon)

Show, don't tell. -- unknown

The problem is that small examples fail to convince, and large examples are too big to follow. -- Steve Yegge.

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration. -- Stan Kelly-Bootle

A guideline in the process of stepwise refinement should be the principle to decompose decisions as much as possible, to untangle aspects which are only seemingly interdependent, and to defer those decisions which concern details of representation as long as possible. -- Niklaus Wirth

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. ~Diane Ackerman

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese Proverb

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. –Booker T. Washington

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle