To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. -- author unknown (quoted in `Robust Systems', Gerald Jay Suseman)

I'm always happy to trade performance for readability as long as the former isn't already scarce. -- Crayz (Commentor on blog.raganwald.com)

Premature abstraction is an equally grevious sin as premature optimization. -- Keith Devens

Remember that you are humans in the first place and only after that programmers. -- Alexandru Vancea

Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning. -- Rich Cook

The Work Begins Anew, The Hope Rises Again, And The Dream Lives On. -- Ted Kennedy

If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary. ~Jim Rohn

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. ~Henry Kravis

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

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart