Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case. -- Francis Glassborow

You will never become a Great Programmer until you acknowledge that you will always be a Terrible Programmer. You will remain a Great Programmer for only as long as you acknowledge that you are still a Terrible Programmer. -- Marc (http://kickin-the-darkness.blogspot.com/)

I think there’s a world market for about 5 computers. -- Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the Board, IBM, circa 1948

Abstraction is a form of data compression: absolutely necessary, because human short-term memory is so small, but the critically important aspect of abstraction is the algorithm that gets you from the name back to the "uncompressed" details. -- Bruce Wilder (blog post comment)

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. -- John Lennon

A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longuer anything to add, but when there is no longuer anything to take away. -- Antoine de St Exupery.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford

The starting point of all achievement is desire. ~Napolean Hill

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown