The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it [Leadership]. -- Dwight D. Enseinhover.

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. -- Brian Kernigan

Good work is no done by ‘humble’ men. -- H. Hardy, A mathematician's apology.

When you’ve got the code all ripped apart, it’s like a car that’s all disassembled. You’ve got all the parts tying all over your garage and you have to replace the broken part or the car will never run. It’s not fun until the code gets back to the baseline again. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

Some people suggest that machines would be friendlier if input could be in a natural language. But natural language is probably the worst kind of input because it can be quite ambiguous. The process of retrieving information from the computer would be so time-consuming that you would be better off spending that time getting the information directly from an expert. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

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

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ~Herman Melville

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~Anonymous