To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. -- author unknown (quoted in `Robust Systems', Gerald Jay Suseman)

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).

When your enemy is making a very serious mistake, don't be impolite and disturb him. -- Napoleon Bonaparte (allegedly)

Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming. -- Donald Knuth

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: "I did not have time." -- WestHost weekly newsletter 14 Feb 2003

Simplicity and pragmatism beat complexity and theory any day. -- Dennis (blog comment)

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. ~Francis Chan

You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. –Unknown

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato