However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. -- Winston Churchill

Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS. -- Alan Kay

The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability. -- Randall E. Stross

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

It is said that the real winner is the one who lives in today but able to see tomorrow. -- Juan Meng, Reviewing "The future of ideas" by Lawrence Lessig

C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce. -- Scott McKay

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. –Anais Nin

Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to doDon’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. ~Jim Rohn

Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan