The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -- Benjamin Franklin

Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning. -- Rich Cook

C’s great for what it’s great for. -- Ben Hoyts (micropledge)

So the mere constraint of staying in regular contact with us will push you to make things happen, because otherwise you'll be embarrassed to tell us that you haven't done anything new since the last time we talked. -- Paul Graham (a talk at Y Combinator, for startup creators).

To follow the path: look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master. -- Modern zen Poem

C++ is like teenage sex: Everybody is talking about it all the time, only few are really doing it. -- unknown

Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. ~George Bernard Shaw

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