The programmer must seek both perfection of part and adequacy of collection. -- Alan J. Perlis

Making All Software Into Tools Reduces Risk. -- smoothspan.com

We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection. It's about a process, a journey. The master is the one who stays on the path day after day, year after year. The master is the one who is willing to try, and fail, and try again, for as long as he or she lives. -- George Leonard, Mastery.

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

It's no trick for talented people to be interesting, but it's a gift to be interested. We want an organization filled with interested people. -- Randy S. Nelson (dean of Pixar University)

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

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

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. –Ann Landers

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle