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

C++ is like teenage sex: Everybody is talking about it all the time, only few are really doing it. -- unknown

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

Programming is the art of figuring out what you want so precisely that even a machine can do it. -- Some guy who isn't famous

1 - Creativity and innovation always build on the past. 2 - The past always tries to control the creativity that builds on it. 3 - Free societies enable the future by limiting the past. 4 - Ours is less and less a free society. -- Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture.

It’s a problem if the design doesn’t let you add features at a later date. If you have to redo a program, the hours you spend can cause you to lose your competitive edge. A flexible program demonstrates the difference between a good designer and someone who is just getting a piece of code out. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like. ~Mike Gafka

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb