Getting back to failing early, I've learned it's important to completely fail. Get fired. Shoot the project, then burn its corpse. Melt the CVS repository and microwave the backup CDs. When things go wrong, I've often tried to play the hero from start to finish. Guess what? Some projects are doomed no matter what. Some need skills I don't possess. And some need a fresh face. -- Reginald Braithwaite

Two people should stay together if together they are better people than they would be individually. -- ?

Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. -- Eagleson’s Law

Actually, the essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes. -- George Leonard, Mastery.

The direct pursuit of happiness is a recipe for an unhappy life. -- Donald Campbell

Mistakes were made. -- Ronald Reagan

Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument. ~Anonymous

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. –Abigail Van Buren

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. ~Albert Einstein

If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission. ~Anonymous