Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration. -- Stan Kelly-Bootle

The greatest of all weaknesses is the fear of appearing weak. -- J. B. Bossuet, Politics from Holy Writ, 1709

Rules of Optimization: Rule 1: Don’t do it. Rule 2 (for experts only): Don’t do it yet. -- M.A. Jackson

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

First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack. -- George Carrette

XML wasn't designed to be edited by humans on a regular basis. -- Guido van Rossum

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu

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

Teach thy tongue to say, I do not know, and thous shalt progress. –Maimonides

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ~Swami Vivekananda