It’s a problem if the design doesn’t let you add features at a later date. If you have to redo a program, the hours you spend can cause you to lose your competitive edge. A flexible program demonstrates the difference between a good designer and someone who is just getting a piece of code out. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

We remember what we learn when we care about performing better and when we believe that what we have been asked to do is representative of reality. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

Humans differ from animals to the degree that they are not merely an end result of their conditioning, but are able to reflect on their experiences and strategies, and apply insight to make changes in the way they live to modify the outcome. -- SlideTrombone (comment on "Programming can ruin your life")

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as *lines produced* but as *lines spent*. -- Edsger Dijkstra

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Goethe

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. -- Hans Hofmann

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. ~Margaret Thatcher

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. ~Mark Caine

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. –Robert Frost

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~Vidal Sassoon