The most damaging phrase in the language is, It's always been done that way. -- Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

Good artists copy. Great artists steal. -- Pablo Picasso

Another feature about this guy is his low threshold of boredom. He'll pick up on a task and work frantically at it, accomplishing wonders in a short time and then get bored and drop it before its properly finished. He'll do nothing but strum his guitar and lie around in bed for several days after. Thats also part of the pattern too; periods of frenetic activity followed by periods of melancholia, withdrawal and inactivity. This is a bipolar personality. -- The bipolar lisp programmer

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise. -- Edsger Dijkstra

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

You think you know when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. –Dalai Lama