It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

And if you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all. -- Joel Spolsky

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/)

The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made. -- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

I guess, when you're drunk, every woman looks beautiful and every language looks (like) a Lisp :) -- Lament, #[email protected]

There are many ways to avoid success in life, but the most sure-fire just might be procrastination. -- Hara Estroff Marano.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors. ~Napoleon Hill

Do one thing every day that scares you. ~Anonymous

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. –Florence Nightingale

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. ~Maya Angelou