If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. -- Robert Sewell

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Cited by Randy Pausch

Dont give users the opportunity to lock themselves. -- unknown

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. -- Bill Gates

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)

Ce n'est que par les relations qu'on entretient entre nos différentes connaissances qu'elles nous restent accessibles. -- Shnuup, sur l'hypertexte (SELFHTML -> Introduction -> Definitions sur l'hypertexte)

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear. –Rosa Parks

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

Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value. ~Albert Einstein