Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -- Thomas Edison

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

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. -- George Burns

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise. -- Edsger Dijkstra

While I’ve always appreciated beautiful code, I share Jonathan’s concern about studying it too much. I think studying beauty in music and painting has led us to modern classical music and painting that the majority of us just don’t get. Beauty can be seen when it emerges, but isn’t something to strive for in isolation of a larger context. In the software world, the larger context would be the utility of the software to the end user. -- [A comment on a blog]

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

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

15.Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –Charles Swindoll

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. –Sheryl Sandberg

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. –Booker T. Washington